Scott Lawrence reports: The superintendent of schools for Beaumont Independent School District today announced that letters are being mailed to parents of nearly 15,000 of its 19,848 students to inform them of a potential breach of data that occurred recently. According to Dr. Carrol A. Thomas, the breach concerning confidential information that was placed on…
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Guam: Special Education database stolen from DOE
Parents of students with disabilities in the Department of Education’s Division of Special Education have reason to be concerned. Sometime between the hours of 5pm on July 29 and 6am of August 1, a data office at Chief Brodie Memorial School was broken into. According to school program consultant Terese Crisostomo, the most notable items…
Jp: Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI) apologizes for data leak
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)…
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…