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…
Category: Education Sector
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…
Investigators say Bow Valley College failed to protect vital info of nearly 200,000
Here’s a breach from almost one year ago that I had missed until this follow-up report. Michael Franklin reports: An investigator into a possible leak of personal information of nearly 200,000 Bow Valley students has found that the institution had indeed failed to protect that information. However, it also says that the school took reasonable…
University of Delaware revises breach figure
There’s an update to a breach reported previously on this blog. Nichole Dobo reports: The University of Delaware has concluded a review of how many were exposed in a data breach last month, and it determined an additional 2,000 individuals who received payment from the university were also affected. This brings the total number of…