Anonymous has taken responsibility for the personal information of some 16,000 Finns ending up on a file sharing site on Saturday, and has additionally made public the membership application database of the Kansallinen Vastarinta (the online magazine of the Finnish militant Neo-Nazi organization Suomen Vastarintaliike) website. […] According to the Helsingin Sanomat, the published information seems…
Category: Education Sector
E-mail failure-to-bcc error exposes U. Alabama students’ failing grades to each other
Taylor Holland reports: Students who had at least one failing midterm grade during the Fall 2011 semester received an email on Oct. 26 from the office of Lowell Davis, the assistant dean of students, notifying them of their grade and potential ways to improve it. Students who received the email were not blind copied in…
NJ: Warren County Community College Alerts Students Whose Social Security Numbers Were on Missing Laptop
On Tuesday, September 27, 2011, the College was notified that a password protected employee laptop that had been taken off campus the previous evening was missing. Believing that the computer could have been stolen, the employee contacted their local police department to investigate a possible theft. In addition, the College notified the NJ State Police…
El Paso County Community College hacked, defaced and data dumped
Over on Cyber War News (a blog I wish I’d known about sooner!), Lee J writes: El Paso County Community College has been targeted due to pure lack of security, @DestructiveSec has been busy away in the servers taking what they wish snooping around and leaving a mess for them to clean up as well as a defaced…
Federal gov. website ‘glitch’ compromised college students’ social security numbers
Lauren Chooljian reports: Private financial information belonging to as many as 5,000 college students was open for viewing on a federal government student loan website in recent weeks, according to a senior Department of Education staff member. James Runcie, the Obama administration’s Chief Operation Officer of Federal Student Aid at the Department of Education, said…
(Update) Former Eastern Michigan University student charged in security breach of students’ information
There’s been an arrest in the Eastern Michigan University breach originally reported in March. The Associated Press reports that a former student has been charged with eight felony counts in connection with the security breach that reportedly involved 45 students’ personal information. They also report that according to university officials, a warrant has been issued…