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University of Arizona server exposes personal data on 7,700

Posted on August 8, 2012 by Dissent

Yes, right, sure we’ll let universities amass oodles of personal info on students… Carol Ann Alaimo reports: Thousands who received payments from the University of Arizona last school year are at risk of identity theft after their personal data was mistakenly put online for more than a month during an upgrade of UA’s financial systems….

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TX: Tarleton State University officials investigate privacy breach

Posted on August 1, 2012 by Dissent

Micah Moore reports: Hundreds of Tarleton State University documents containing students’ personal information were scattered across the intersection of Washington and Lillian streets Tuesday afternoon breaching a federal law that is supposed to protect student records. The financial aid documents from 1997-98 contained the social security number, date of birth, federal PELL grant disbursements and…

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UK: Man claims hard drive bought at car boot sale contained personal data from West Cheshire College

Posted on July 26, 2012 by Dissent

Carmella de Lucia reports: A computer hard drive allegedly loaded with more than 50,000 personal details of students and tutors from West Cheshire College was sold at a hospital car boot sale. The discovery was made by a shocked Pioneer reader who bought the second-hand computer tower and hard drive for £5 from a sale…

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OSU notifying individuals of data security breach

Posted on July 25, 2012 by Dissent

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….

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UK: Inquiry after pupil details stolen during raid on house

Posted on July 20, 2012 by Dissent

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…

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1,200 Usernames, Passwords Leaked from Yale University

Posted on July 19, 2012 by Dissent

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…

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