Reba Lean reports: The Alaska Department of Education and Early Development has warned school districts across the state that information on thousands of students, including some from Fairbanks, was contained on a computer hard drive stolen in Juneau. The department sent a letter to all school districts, including Fairbanks, alerting local officials to information breach….
Category: Education Sector
Univ. of South Carolina warns 31,000 that personal info was exposed on the Web
Noelle Phillips reports: USC has experienced computer security breach that has exposed 31,000 people’s private information, including social security numbers, on the internet. The security breach was discovered in January on a computer server at USC Sumter, but it potentially affected faculty, staff, retirees and students throughout the university system’s eight campuses. “Letters went out…
6,000 Missouri State U. Students Have Social Security Numbers Exposed on Web
KTTS alerts us to a breach involving Missouri State University students. A statement on MSU’s web site explains: Missouri State University officials are notifying 6,030 College of Education students that their social security numbers may have been compromised as a result of an internal security breach. In October and November 2010, in preparation for an…
UK: Imperial College Dept. of Computing in IT Security Breach
The Department of Computing has found itself the subject of a “security breach”, and Imperial College’s ICT department is taking “precautionary” action to prevent malicious access to user accounts. An email to all students and staff within the department informed students that there had been “a root level compromise was discovered on the main shell…
CA: Chapman University students’ personal information leaked
Shan Li reports: A document containing sensitive information on 13,000 students of Chapman University and its affiliate, Brandman University, was accidentally accessible to students last week, the university said. The electronic document — which contained the Social Security numbers, student identification numbers and financial aid information of approximately 11,000 current and former Chapman students, 1,900…
UK: Met called after hackers send obscene emails from university database
Josh Halliday reports: The Metropolitan police has been called in after computer hackers gained access to a London university medical database, sending a string of expletive-laden emails to hundreds of its users. Unidentified hackers sent emails last week pretending that members of the university’s executive board were involved in a “recent child pornography sting” and…