This sounds very much like the incident University of North Florida reported last month, but it’s a new/separate announcement from the University of Florida: University of Florida officials are notifying 220 former law school students and applicants who had sought a roommate online in the early 2000s through the Levin College of Law that their Social Security…
Category: Education Sector
CA: USC warns of credit card security breach on campus
Students and staff at USC are being advised to check their credit card statements for unauthorized charges after a security breach was discovered at some campus food outlets, including dining halls and a Starbucks. A letter was posted on the university’s website Thursday detailing the recently identified security breach affecting credit card purchases made at…
TN: Montgomery County Schools ‘turn the corner’ after hacking
Adam Tamburin reports: The school system is set to spend $167,000 so far to respond to a security breach that resulted in the release of Social Security numbers belonging to past and present students and employees. That money has been split between $87,000 for software and hardware and $80,000 for experts’ analysis of the breached…
Old law puts school data at risk
Susan Palmer reports: An obscure state regulation — one that requires districts to keep student records for decades — is one reason several thousand Eugene School District students are at risk of having their Social Security numbers hijacked following a security breach of the district’s electronic records. School districts must retain student records for 75…
PA: Security breach exposes student data
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…
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…