The following notice was posted on Brownsville (Texas) Independent School District web site: On Monday, November 7, 2011, Brownsville ISD was advised that the Social Security numbers of employees who are enrolled for disability insurance were inadvertently posted by prior department administration in April 2011 on the Employee Benefits/Risk Management (EB/RM) website; a site accessible…
Category: Education Sector
Czech Education Minister to fire bureaucrat responsible for Romani data leak
As an update to a post involving a web leak of Romani student data on the Czechoslovakian Ministry of Education site, Romea.cz has an update: The Czech Interior Ministry has learned which bureaucrat published a list of Romani pupils including sensitive data about them to the ministry website. Czech Education Minister Josef Dobeš (Public Affairs…
UCLA Psychology Dept. database hacked (again?)
Via Cyber War News, it seems that a UCLA Department of Psychology faculty database was hacked by Inj3ctor. Much of the data represent the names of departmental programs with corresponding names, e-mail addresses, and/or phone numbers and are just directory information, but there is also a dump of applicant information that reveals 26 applicants’ first…
Spreadsheet with info on 19,276 University of Texas-Pan American students exposed on the Internet
According to its student newspaper, PanAmerican Online, The University of Texas-Pan American has e-mailed an alert to students affected by a security breach. The text of the e-mail is reportedly as follows: On Nov. 2, 2011, The University of Texas-Pan American discovered that on Sept. 1, 2011, a spreadsheet containing information on 19,276 students was made…
Virginia Commonwealth University alerts 176,567 faculty, staff, students and affiliates to hacking incident
A notice was posted today on Virginia Commonwealth University’s web site: To the VCU and VCU Health System communities: A security incident has resulted in unauthorized access to a Virginia Commonwealth University computer server containing files with personal information on current and former VCU and VCU Health System faculty, staff, students and affiliates. We believe the…
FL: Students’ Personal Information Exposed
Jacquie Slater reports: Parents in Wakulla County are worried after the social security numbers of thousands of students were accidentally made public. Superintendent David Miller sent the letter to the parents of more than 2400 students in grades four through ten whose information was accidentally posted on line. The glitch was found when a parent…