Chacour Koop reports: The grade point averages of 430 students were released to 65 students about two and a half weeks ago, which is a violation of the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). Robert Miller, Eastern’s general counsel, has refused to comment on the violations. Sue Harvey, Eastern’s registrar and FERPA officer, has…
Category: Education Sector
HK: School websites compromised data privacy
Here’s something you likely won’t see here in the U.S. – partly because we don’t have a Privacy Commissioner and partly because the U.S. Department of Education remains disturbingly placid about all the breaches in the education sector – the government of Hong Kong issued the following statement: The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for…
No one’s to blame? I beg to disagree.
Another data theft in the education sector. And yet again, no one did anything wrong because there was never any policy. Yesterday I added a breach to DataLossDB involving the Morgan Road Middle School in Georgia. A flash drive with unencrypted student information, including SSNs, was stolen from an teacher’s unattended car. A gradebook was…
University of North Carolina servers hacked; 3,500 employees’ data accessed
It seems that the University of North Carolina has had yet another data breach. And although the breach was discovered in May, it took about 7 months for those affected to be notified. Jane Stancill reports: Some 3,500 people had their personal information exposed when hackers hit two servers of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer…
VA: Fairfax Schools leak: Personal student info will be removed
Hatzel Vela reports on WJLA: Fairfax County Public Schools Wednesday learned confidential student information from Fairfax High School was leaked and posted online, but that information is now being taken down. The information included student’s names, student ID numbers and even grades. The records listed students from 9th to 11th grade. Because senior students are…
AU: Hackers’ extortion bid on schools
I don’t recall ever seeing an media report on an extortion/ransom attempt on a school, but here’s a case out of Australia, where they also seem to have more media reports of ransomware in the healthcare and small business sectors than we do. As reported by the Herald Sun: Schools have emerged as a new…