A Nebraska college is suing the unknown person or people who sent an e-mail to state officials and the news media that college officials say was intended to embarrass the school. The lawsuit filed Monday in Madison County District Court says the e-mail signed by “necc–student” complained that a Northeast Community College student was caught…
Category: Education Sector
OH: ID-theft protection extended to more school employees
Jennifer Smith Richards reports: Roughly 800 Columbus schools employees are being offered free credit monitoring services, just in case their information was compromised, the district said today. A computer printout with at least 50 employees’ personal information, including Social Security numbers, was found during a police raid on an East Side home Saturday. Until this…
OR: Stolen computer contains participants’ personal information
A laptop computer containing data files for Youth Transition Program (YTP) participants was stolen from a University of Oregon employee near the end of October, and some of those files contained the names and social security numbers of YTP participants. The theft appeared to be random and the computer was password protected. There is no…
CCS Security Breach May Not Be 1st
Donna Willis provides some additional information on the breach involving Columbus City School employees: […] NBC 4’s Ana Jackson GOT ANSWERS and found out this incident might not have been the district’s first security breach. NBC 4 found out the district ran into a similar problem last year. A district employee whom detectives believe was…
OH: CCS Employees’ Personal Info Found During Police Raid
Columbus City Schools experienced a security breach, resulting in employees’ Social Security numbers being at risk. A raid conducted by Columbus police Thursday turned up the Social Security numbers of 80 to 100 CCS employees, NBC 4‘s Lauren Diedrich reported. The information was part of a mailing that appears to have been intercepted while en…
NY: Hackers steal 450 Social Security numbers from U. of Rochester
Meaghan M. McDermott reports: Personal information including Social Security numbers of about 450 current and former University of Rochester students was stolen by hackers this week from a UR database. According to the university, the information was taken from a non-academic student database and copied illegally to an off-campus IP address. The breach was discovered…