Joce DeWitt reports: Oregon State Police currently are investigating a security breach by a vendor who, while under contract to Oregon State University, copied information from a check register data base without permission. The action could have compromised the private information of 21,000 students and employees who were associated with OSU between 1996 and 2009….
Category: Education Sector
UK: Inquiry after pupil details stolen during raid on house
Roby Reynolds reports: Education chiefs have ordered an investigation after dozens of pupils’ files were stolen from a school worker’s home. Documents containing personal information of 45 children were taken during a break-in at the home of a member of staff from the education welfare service at Edinburgh City Council. The woman had been working…
1,200 Usernames, Passwords Leaked from Yale University
Eduard Kovacs reports: The newly founded hacker collective NullCrew has been very busy in the past few days. After they hacked the systems of ASUS and the ones of a South African ISP directory, they turned their attention to Yale University. From the databases of the educational institution, the hackers obtained the details of around 1,200 students and…
OR: Search warrant documents student’s computer hacking
More details have emerged on the North Eugene High School, Oregon breach. Karen McCowan reports: A 16-year-old former North Eugene High School student — accused of illegally accessing and posting a spreadsheet last month that contained the confidential information of thousands of Eugene students — was caught in late 2011 using an administrative password to…
In: IIM-A suspects data theft from its servers
Haven’t seen anything on Pastebin or Twitter claiming responsibility, so I have no idea if this report is related to any kind of hacktivism, but Press Trust of India reports: The Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIM-A) has filed a complaint with the police “apprehending” theft of data from its computer network and servers by unauthorised…
Update: Teenager charged in Eugene school data breach
Susan Palmer reports an update to a previously noted breach: Eugene police have arrested a teenage suspect on suspicion of hacking into the Eugene School District’s computer system in a June incident that potentially compromised thousands of student records and sent parents on a scramble to make sure their children did not become victims of…