Kate Dubinski reports: A 15-year-old hacker accused of breaking into the Thames Valley District school board’s website and exposing the passwords of 27,000 high school students has been criminally charged.The boy was arrested and charged with four criminal code offences: Intercepting a computer function – Fraudulently obtaining computing services. Using a computer with intent to…
Category: Education Sector
UH West O’ahu security breach affects Mānoa students
The University of Hawaii has just posted a breach notice concerning the incident described in an earlier blog entry: The University of Hawai`i – West O`ahu (UHWO) is notifying approximately 40,000 individuals that their personal information may have been compromised. The exposure occurred when a faculty member inadvertently uploaded files containing data including names, social…
University of Hawaii-Manoa Breaches exposes sensitive info on 40,000 students
It’s bad enough when your system gets hacked. It’s worse when the breach is self-inflicted. This just in: The University of Hawaii-Manoa has breached the personal information of 40,101 students who attended between 1990-1998 and 2001, including names, social security numbers, dates of birth, addresses, demographic, and detailed academic performance data. … The information was…
Students’ personal information posted online inadvertently
Lina Savickas reports: The personal information of about 400 Benedictine students and a few non-students within the Election Judge Training Program was inadvertently posted online on the program’s Facebook page, according to Executive Vice President Charlie Gregory. Personal information including Social Security numbers, dates of birth, e-mail addresses and telephone numbers was on a spreadsheet…
Former University of California IT employee sentenced to one year and a day for ID theft
Cam Giang was sentenced today to 12 months and one day in prison for his role in an identity theft scheme, United States Attorney Melinda Haag announced. A restitution hearing in this case has been scheduled for Jan. 20, 2011. Giang, 31, of San Francisco, Calif., pled guilty on July 22, 2010, to one count…
CT: U. Conn addresses security breach
Amy McDavitt reports: A recent security breach on the Storrs campus revealed a list of former students’ names and Social Security numbers and made them available on the Internet. The university was made aware of the situation Oct. 4 after one of the individuals on the list discovered it and alerted university officials, according to…