Jason A. Kahl reports: The personal information of all students in the Fleetwood School District was stolen and posted online, district officials and Fleetwood police said Wednesday. The security breach was discovered by parents of students in the district who notified school officials Tuesday. The school contacted borough police and the website, Wikispaces, where it…
Category: Education Sector
OR: Eugene School District 4J reports breach
From the district’s web site: An unknown person has accessed confidential files that contained students’ and some former students’ personal identity information, including names, addresses and some Social Security numbers. What Happened and When? The investigation of how the breach occurred is ongoing, but at this time we suspect that the person used a district…
UNF housing server data breach may affect 23,246 individuals
First Coast News reports: University of North Florida students who submitted housing contracts from 1997 to spring 2011 may be vulnerable to a data breach, according to a release on the school’s website. The names and social security numbers of 23,246 individuals are among the vulnerable information. Servers have been secured, but this information may…
University of Virginia gaffe exposes student applications with Social Security Numbers
Ted Strong reports: Roughly 300 transcripts, some containing complete Social Security numbers, were accessible through a University of Virginia website on Tuesday morning due to an as-yet unspecified human error, university officials have confirmed. The incident came to light when a student conducting a Google search for an image of himself found his transcript online….
U. Nebraska breach also affected state colleges
Oh ho… so it wasn’t just U. of Nebraska affected by the hack reported May 23. The Lincoln Journal Star reports: Nebraska State College System officials have been notified that their records were included in a security breach reported last week by the University of Nebraska in late May. The State College System and NU…
New Math, data breaches version
As a survivor of New Math, it’s somewhat amazing that I’m willing to deal with numbers or math at all. Yet, here I am, with a simple equation as today’s New Math: UNCC + UN = time for regulation Simple, elegant, and somewhat nonsensical as a math equation, but two recent education sector breaches do…