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U.S. indicts three over alleged phishing campaign targeting universities, businesses

Posted on August 2, 2019 by Dissent

Bradley Barth reports: The Department of Justice has indicted two Americans and a Nigerian on multiple charges for their alleged roles in a phishing scheme that targeted college employees, banks and other businesses from May 2013 through June 2014. Filed on Tuesday in U.S. District Court in New Mexico, the indictment identifies the defendants as…

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NV: CCSD says data breach has exposed student, staff information

Posted on August 2, 2019 by Dissent

Ricardo Torres-Cortez reports: Names and “in some instances” dates of birth of more than 550,000 former and current Clark County School District students were compromised in a data security incident. The snafu occurred with a clinical assessment program — also known as AIMSweb — which was contracted by CCSD through the Pearson vendor, said the…

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AL: Houston County Schools pushes school start back further

Posted on August 1, 2019 by Dissent

WTVY reports: Houston County Schools announced their second delay to the start of the school year. Students will now report back on Monday, August 12. Open House will be held on Thursday, August 8 from 3 p.m. until 7 p.m. The delay is due to continued problems caused by a malware attack on the system’s…

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IL: Dist. 26 Discovers Data Breach (Pearson)

Posted on August 1, 2019 by Dissent

Journal Staff reports: River Trails School Dist. 26 officials said they became aware Wednesday (July 31) of a data breach that occurred last November affecting student information dating back to 1997. According to Dist. 26 Supt. Nancy Wagner, the district received a letter from Pearson, a British-owned education publishing and assessment service for schools and…

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School division announces third-party data breach

Posted on August 1, 2019 by Dissent

Melissa Topey reports: Shenandoah County Public School administrators recently announced a vendor they once used had a data breach that compromised some student and administrator data. The school division used software called AIMSweb 1.0, a product of Pearson Assessments, in its elementary and middle schools for about five years until the 2016-2017 school year, said…

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Pearson Hack Exposed Details on Thousands of U.S. Students

Posted on July 31, 2019 by Dissent

Parmy Olson reports that while Pearson may be trying to implant the idea that 13,000 students were affected by its recently disclosed breach, the number may actually be much, much higher. Allan Cunningham, the information-security officer for Washoe County School District in Nevada, said he learned from Pearson that the breach affected data of 114,000…

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