Valley View University in Ghana is a private chartered university. According to Wikipedia, it is part of a worldwide system of over 100 tertiary institutions operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church. And according to Virtual SEPO, it was hacked. The data dump includes entries consisting of e-mail address, plaintext passwords, and full names. Here’s a…
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University of Florida notifies 719 individuals about privacy breach
From the University of Florida today: University of Florida officials are notifying 719 individuals who were owed a check or refund by the university that their Social Security numbers were exposed on Florida’s Unclaimed Property website. In July 2005, the university submitted its Annual Unclaimed Property Report to the Florida State Department of Financial Services…
Central Connecticut State University server infected with Z-Bot; over 18,000 notified of incident
A statement linked from CCSU’s home page, dated today: Central Connecticut State University officials have announced that a security breach in a CCSU Business Office computer exposed the Social Security Numbers of current and former faculty, staff, and student workers to potential misuse. James Estrada, the University’s Chief Information Officer, says the computer was infected…
NC: Online security breach hits Charlotte college campus, officials warn
Chris Dyches reports: School officials say an online security breach has hit a Charlotte college campus and they are still trying to figure out how much information was potentially risked. According to the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, the breach hit the UNC-Charlotte campus and put information for students and staff at risk, they…
NY: Student hacker arrested at Bethlehem High
Dayelin Roman reports: A 16-year-old Bethlehem High School student was arrested last week after police said he uploaded a virus into a school computer. Police did not release the boy’s name pending the possibility of youthful offender status, but said the school’s information technology department noticed a virus being installed on the network on Feb….
FL: Valencia College apologizes after student personal information exposed online by contractor error
Valencia College is apologizing after a mistake allowed the personal information of 9,000 current and prospective students to be posted online. The school said an Excel spreadsheet with the students’ names, address, date of birth, and student IDs was listed online on a password-protected website. Eventually, it lost its password protection, which means anyone could…