From NUI Galway’s web site: This notice is related to a text which was sent by the University this week. If you received the text please read the message below as it explains the incident. On March 30 th2011 the University was advised that a file containing student id number, name, NUI Galway email address…
Category: Education Sector
Ca: School board loses memory stick with employee data
CBC reports: The private information of thousands of Edmonton Public School Board employees has been missing for more than three weeks, CBC News has learned.In a massive privacy breach, a USB memory stick containing information, including resumes and employment records of about 7,000 employees, was lost on March 22. The stick was used by a…
PA: Theft Of College Computers May Result In Breach Of Personal Data
WFMZ-TV alerts us to a breach at Albright College in Reading, PA. Although there does not appear to be any easy-to-find notice on the college’s web site at the time of this publication, WFMZ reports: Albright College in Reading is putting its current, prospective, and former students on alert about a possible breach of…
TX: Parents Of 60 Local Students Advised Of Possible Security Breach
Eli Ross provides a small update to a breach reported last month when student records of some students at Ellison High School were found blowing across a field: The Killeen Independent School District said Tuesday that it sent home 58 letters to parents of students warning of a security breach involving personal information including Social…
Medical office assistants charged criminally under HIPAA for their part in ID theft ring
A March 15, 2011 indictment of twelve defendants charged for their parts in an identity theft and bank fraud scheme has been unsealed. Two of the defendants, who worked for HIPAA-covered entities in Florida, and have also been charged with HIPAA violations. According to the indictment, Erica Hall was employed by Dr. Linda Green in Coral…
(update) More Student SSNs Were At Risk, TEA Says
Morgan Smith reports that a breach involving the Texas Education Agency was much worse than originally reported. Last month, the TEA reported that an unencrypted disk containing data on almost 25,000 Laredo Independent School District students had gone missing. But when the Texas Tribune obtained records about the breach, they discovered that there were data…