SOKENDAI issued the following public apology on September 1: We regret to inform that we have found the personal information appeared in the department chairs meeting materials was temporally accessible on the Internet. The reason this occurred was that the meeting materials were uploaded to the wrong place in High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)…
Category: Education Sector
OH: Candidate for world’s dumbest criminal pleads guilty to attempting to extort Xavier University
It’s not that often that we find out about extortion attempts related to data breaches, so when we do, I try to follow up on them. Here’s a follow-up to an extortion attempt involving Xavier University that I previously covered on this blog. Kimball Perry reports on a very poorly executed crime: Recently released from…
School records lost by Canada Post; identity theft feared
It’s not just U.S. school districts that have been suffering breaches. Here’s one from Canada that was reported last week by Luisa D’Amato: Canada Post has lost two rolls of microfilm containing the personal information of more than 2,200 Waterloo Region residents who left or graduated from high school six years ago. The microfilms were being…
TX: 2 Birdville students hack into school district’s network
Yesterday, it was the school district in El Paso. Today, it’s Birdville reporting a breach. Jessamy Brown reports: Two students from Birdville schools hacked into a school district network server and accessed a file with 14,500 student names and social security numbers, a Birdville spokesman said Thursday. Birdville superintendent Darrell Brown on Thursday mailed a…
Email Misdirected in Switch to Gmail
Julia L. Ryan reports: During the transfer of Harvard @college email accounts to new Google hosted accounts, a handful of students received emails from individuals who share their surname, raising privacy concerns for some who chose to switch email systems. Thousands of students have successfully accessed their new Google hosted @college email accounts, and fewer…
TX: Hackers tap EPISD system: Student, employee information, including Social Security numbers, compromised
Daniel Borunda reports: The private information of thousands of El Paso Independent School District students, teachers and other employees is at risk after hackers broke into the district’s internal computer network. The security breach was discovered Wednesday when a computer security company noticed hackers bragging on a website about breaking into the EPISD system. EPISD…