David Stephens reports: Maybe not the way some college students wanted to start off the month of November, as North Georgia Technical College is advising some students to keep a close eye on their credit reports – that after one of their student data bases may have been breached. According to college spokesperson Sandra Maughon,…
Category: Education Sector
The Michigan State University Police Department is investigating an attempted theft of employee direct-deposit payroll earnings
eSecurity Planet just made me aware of a breach disclosed earlier this week: Posted by the Michigan State University Police on October 20: On Friday, October 18, two employees reported receiving email confirmation of a change in their direct-deposit designation. Police say that valid credentials (MSU NetID and password) were used by a perpetrator to…
Former FAMU student sentenced to two years in federal prison for identity theft
Karl Etters reports: One of three former Florida A&M University students involved in a 2010 scheme to steal financial aid money from other students was sentenced to two years in federal prison Thursday. Christopher J. Wright, 23, of Fort Lauderdale was sentenced on charges of aggravated identity theft and access device fraud after he and…
Ca: Brandon University hacked; learned of breach from hacker (UPDATED)
One of the Brandon University servers was hacked over the Thanksgiving long weekend. Brandon University President Dr. Deborah Poff stated in an email sent to students and administration on the morning of Friday, October 18th that the university had received evidence confirming access by an unauthorized individual of one of the forty servers in the computer…
Update: $380k spent investigating, cleaning up after Ferris State’s online security breach
Brian McVicar reports the costs of the Ferris State University breach covered on this blog in August. A total of $380,000 was spent investigating and providing services for those affected by a data security breach at Ferris State University that put at risk personal information of 62,000 people, according to a university report. The report, obtained through…
California State University at Sacramento employees are being notified of hack involving their SSN
Derek Shore reports: The personal information of nearly 2,000 Sacramento State employees may have been compromised after a computer system was breached. News of the August breach is just trickling out. It took the university about a month to figure out the scope of the breach and are only this week reaching out to affected…