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…
Category: Education Sector
University of Nebraska breach needs to reverberate in Washington, D.C.
The University of Nebraska disclosed a breach last week, which I dutifully entered on DataLossDB. The breach sounded like it could be huge, despite the university’s statement that it had no evidence (at that time) that any data had been downloaded: The NeSIS database includes Social Security numbers, addresses, grades, transcripts, housing and financial aid…
High school hack: Teenager suspended for accessing confidential school records and posting them on Facebook
David Collins of The Mirror reports: A teenager hacked into his school’s “secure” database and posted pupils’ disciplinary records on Facebook. Lewis Blessed, 15, was suspended from classes for nine days after revealing confidential staff comments about children who had misbehaved. But his mum Andrea, 43, says the school over-reacted – because her son simply…
Hackers Compromise U Of Arkansas Computer Store Records (updated to include affected U. Maine and U. Rochester)
Hackers broke into a Maine-based computer server and exposed credit card records of more than 1,000 customers at the University of Arkansas Computer Store, school officials said Thursday. The school discovered Tuesday the breach could affect as many as 1,007 computer store customers who made online transactions during the past four years. University officials continue…
UNC-Charlotte breach affects 350,000
Remember that breach that the University of North Carolina at Charlotte disclosed back in February? Well, they’ve finally released some details and it’s a doozy. Chris Dyches reports: An investigation into the incident shows that financial account numbers and approximately 350,000 social security numbers were included among the exposed data. The exposure has been remediated, officials…
Atlanta Student Suspended for Breach of School Database
Jeff Goldman reports: A 19-year-old student at Atlanta’s Booker T. Washington High School was recently suspended for seven days for stealing his father’s user name and password in order to change 18 fellow students’ attendance and course assignment records in exchange for money — the student’s father is a counselor at the school. The students…