There has been another development in a data breach involving the Sachem Central School District on Long Island (previous coverage here and here). As I commented previously, it sounded to me like they suspected an insider breach but it wasn’t clear if it was an employee or a student hacker they suspected. Well, now we…
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Update: Sachem school informs students, parents of data breach
An update on the Sachem Central School District breach in New York. Joan Gralla reports: Sachem Central School District is informing thousands of students and parents that some of their data were posted online in a security breach that is being investigated by authorities, the superintendent said. The latest data leak at one of Long…
Granite State College notifying employees after they were successfully phished
Granite State College in New Hampshire is notifying three New Hampshire residents because an employee fell for a phishing scheme and some employee information, including compensation, was sent to a gmail account. You can read their notification here.
Washington State U. notifies employees and students that SSN and financial info were on stolen drives
Bill McKee of Daily News reported this breach last week: More than 300 employees, former employees and students at Washington State University are receiving letters in the mail informing them they may have had personal information compromised when hard drives were stolen from an on-campus office last month. WSU Assistant Police Chief Steve Hansen confirmed…
NY: Sachem School District has student data leak (update1)
Michael Sorrentino reports: Leaked student records are allegedly now available on a website that may be the source of Sachem Central School District’s Friday announcement that internal district information has been posted onto a local message board. The website is the one referred to Patch by resident Stephanie Volpe, who posted screenshots of it Friday morning after…
JP: University private info left open to public access
Some Japanese universities found out the hard way about the risks of networked multifunction printers: Personal information on students and other university members, which is read by and stored in all-in-one machines at the University of Tokyo and two other universities, was left accessible to the public via the Internet, it has been learned. The…