The following statement was issued by Humboldt State University yesterday: Humboldt State University is alerting approximately 5,700 students to take precautions against identity theft in the wake of a single incident involving one student’s personal information. The affected files have been secured and HSU has verified it was a single incident. It is unlikely the privacy and…
Category: Education Sector
1,300 Brigham Young University students’ information released accidentally
Paige Fieldsted reports: The personal information of hundreds of international students at BYU was inadvertently released by email Monday. The message was sent by a staff member in the University Advisement Center who was sending out a notice of a career workshop, but a complete list of students’ names, email addresses, phone numbers and student…
Europe’s ‘youngest app designer’ expelled from school for hacking its IT system
ANI reports: A “computer whizzkid”, who was crowned Europe’s youngest application designer, has been expelled for hacking into his school’s computer system. Aaron Bond, 14, was expelled from King Edward VI College in Totnes, Devon for trying to access confidential information about staff and students and even the vice-principal’s financial information. He managed to access…
Everything’s leaking everywhere: McGill shuts down website that revealed donor records
Karen Seidman reports: McGill University has succeeded – for now – in shutting down a website that had exposed confidential and personal information about McGill donors, embarrassing the university and raising questions about the security of private information. The information included how much donors had given in the past and how much they were being…
Twitter yanks @LindenLeaks account, but some damage was already done
Russell Korando reports on a university data breach that demonstrates why universities need to nail down security and access to education records: LindenLeaks is no longer posting information about Lindenwood University or its students on Twitter. Sometime early Wednesday, the Twitter account stopped publishing. Lindenwood officials, St. Charles police and the St. Charles County Cyber…
Ca: UBC computer with sensitive data recovered
Encryption worked, but what was the laptop doing in an unattended vehicle anyway? CBC News reports: The University of B.C. is reviewing its security procedures after the theft of a laptop containing personal information on thousands of students and faculty members. RCMP retrieved the computer last month, 10 days after it was stolen from a…