Tony Shin and Kelly Goff report: Confidential information about more than 35,000 students enrolled at community colleges in Riverside County may have been compromised, the district said in a letter Monday. The records affected belong to students enrolled during the spring 2014 semester at Riverside City, Norco and Moreno Valley colleges. A database containing information…
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AU: Optus exposes customers’ silent listings
Ben Grubb reports: Optus says it mistakenly released an undisclosed number of customers’ names, mobile numbers and addresses to Sensis, which led to them being published in the White Pages. The details exposed were of those who requested their number be kept silent, or private. The telco, which began notifying customers about the issue last…
No information security breach found in wake of charter school’s mailer to Jersey City parents
Michaelangelo Conte reports: A Sherman Avenue charter school did not access the Jersey City school system’s computers to obtain personal information about district students for a mailer, a district official said this afternoon. The school district had been concerned that the METS Charter School obtained the information form the city school data system but an…
AU: Review blames Immigration for data breach exposing 10,000 detainees
Paul Farrell and Oliver Laughland report: A major data breach that exposed the personal details of almost 10,000 people in detention was caused by Immigration Department failures to check and approve documents for web publication, an independent review has found. The report by management consultants KPMG, which was published on Thursday, reveals that the document containing…
CO: 150 Personal Veterans Records Mailed To Wrong Man
CBS reports: Sensitive information detailing the military careers of dozens of U.S. veterans, social security numbers and pension applications was mailed to a Weld County man who is also a veteran. That mix-up can be traced back to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in Lakewood. The agency is in charge of processing disability claims…
U.Va. Email Accidentally Exposes Student Information
Associated Press reports: The University of Virginia says a law school administrator accidentally sent an email with the personal information of 155 students. Officials say the email sent earlier this week via a school mass mailing list included a spreadsheet that contained GPAs, class ranks and personal biographical information on students who are applying for…