As this blog makes painfully clear, the education sector struggles with data security and lags way behind other sectors, in my opinion. Now a new report indicates another area of security where they’re lagging. Brian Prince reports: The education industry – which includes education companies, schools and colleges – brought up the rear in a new…
Category: U.S.
TX: Denton County Health Department Alerts TB Clinic Patients to Breach
From the Denton County Health Department: HIPAA Security Breach Notification April 10, 2015 On February 13, 2015, a Denton County Health Department employee temporarily left a USB drive at a local printing store in order to print a personal document from the device. Unfortunately, that USB drive included 874 unsecured data files of tuberculosis (TB)…
TN: Former Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital employee indicted for identity theft and fraud
George Brown reports on a breach that’s news to me: A former Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital employee has been indicted for identity theft and fraud. Investigators started looking at Fannie Randolph, 52, in late 2013 and was fired a short time later. Randolph worked in the emergency room where she reportedly used patient information to,…
Data breach reported at Roxbury Community College
No details yet, but Boston.com reports that the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office is looking into a breach at Roxbury Community College. The college community was notified by e-mail yesterday that a breach was discovered around March 16. According to Boston.com, authorities were on-site yesterday morning to collect evidence and to interview college employees as part of the investigation. I…
Personal data of people who never even applied to Auburn University was also exposed in breach
The Auburn University breach involving the exposure of information just got worse, in my opinion. Erin Edgemon reports that some of the people who had their data exposed not only never attended Auburn, but never even applied there. Not surprisingly, they would like to know how Auburn got personal information about them that wound up exposed. But Auburn reportedly…
FL: Was Pasco County School District negligent in securing their network from students?
WTSP has provided a follow-up to a report noted earlier involving a 14-year old student at Paul R. Smith Middle School who is facing two felony charges for allegedly hacking into the Pasco County School District‘s network. Their new report addresses some of the questions I raised in my previous post about the incident. In their update, the student, who is now…