Parents of children at Hopkins Road and Salem Church Road Elementary Schools say their kids came home with sensitive data belonging to other students and they now want to know who has access to their kid’s private data. An 8News investigation found 130 students at the two schools brought home information forms filled with personal…
Category: Education Sector
Hacker pleads guilty to charges he sold “magic passwords” to sensitive networks
Dan Goodin reports: A Pennsylvania man has pleaded guilty to charges stemming from a scheme to hack in to sensitive computer networks operated by the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and other sensitive organizations and then sell “magic passwords” providing backdoor access to others. Andrew James Miller, 23, of Devon, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty to one count of…
OH: Personal documents found in desk could put former Talawanda High School students at risk
Bob Ratterman reports: Talawanda School District officials are offering a year of credit protection to former Talawanda High School students whose personal information may have been left in a desk sold at auction Aug. 3. A person who purchased a desk at the sale notified the district that it contained student information, including emergency medical…
UK: Uni in Data Protection Breach
Jo Barrows reports on an e-mail gaffe involving University of York: The Department of Admissions have been left red-faced after circulating an email containing private details of a postgraduate application to every student on the applicant’s course. The email included a forwarded message from the applicant who was appealing against her rejection from a Masters…
MS: UMC accidentally leaks students’ personal information
Seriously, these attachment errors are pretty inexcusable, aren’t they? Brian Eason reports: The University of Mississippi Medical Center mistakenly gave out social security numbers, grade point averages and other personal information for most of its student body this week, violating state and federal privacy laws. UMC’s accounting department on Wednesday attached the private data to…
San Francisco State College of Extended Learning reports breach; one of 500 entities breached
San Francisco State College of Extended Learning is notifying students that a server housing files with their personal information was compromised on March 25, 2013. The college learned of the breach on June 11, when it was notified by federal law enforcement that the server had been used by a group not affiliated with SF…