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Feds: Former dean hacked into system, sent students e-mail threats

Posted on December 11, 2010 by Dissent

Natasha Korecki reports on a wild case in the federal courts: It was 2007 when Kaplan University students received a disturbing message in their e-mail inboxes. “YOU ARE F—–!” was the subject heading. And it was signed by the head of the online school. “Your schools (sic) Web site has been Hacked!” the e-mail threatened….

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WI: UW-Madison warns 60,000 of old ID card data hack

Posted on December 10, 2010 by Dissent

Samara Kalk Derby reports about a newly revealed breach involving the University of Wisconsin – Madison: Records with the names and identification card numbers of 60,000 people affiliated with UW-Madison were hacked into, compromising Social Security numbers. UW-Madison became aware of the problem Oct. 26 and notified the mostly former students, faculty and staff members…

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(follow-up) Ca: Cops called in late on security breach

Posted on December 8, 2010 by Dissent

Jennifer O’Brien reports on the post-breach discussions going on in the Thames Valley School District after a student exposed 27,000 passwords: There are “many lessons” to be learned from the security breach that left 27,000 Thames Valley student passwords exposed on the Internet, two senior school board educators said Sunday. […] In an interview, Tucker…

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Stolen storage device contained credit card info for Dartmouth freshmen or parents

Posted on December 6, 2010 by Dissent

Dartmouth College has notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that a storage device stolen from a secure room on or about Nov. 8 contained credit card information on 147 freshmen or their parents. According to the letter sent Nov. 22, data on the stolen device contained some combination of student and/or parent names,  phone…

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PA: Woodland Hills website lists some student test scores in error

Posted on December 5, 2010 by Dissent

A superintendent’s report posted on the Internet — intended to help Woodland Hills school board members decide whether to stop using an alternative school — exposed for more than a week the confidential state test scores of individual students. Woodland Hills Superintendent Walter Calinger said the portion of his report containing the names and performance…

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Records of 8,300 former University of Arizona students are missing

Posted on December 2, 2010 by Dissent

Becky Pallack of the Arizona Daily Star reports: A missing hard drive prompted University of Arizona officials to notify 8,300 former students that their identities could be at risk. The external hard drive went missing from a secure records room in Old Main in October or earlier, and it could have been lost when the…

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