On February 7, a site reader alerted me to a possible problem over on Kively.com: Look at the description directory – it reveals all the PII when there is some in the descriptor. After looking at the description directory, I found myself wondering about whether some of the entries were, in fact, disclosing some PII. Instead…
Category: Exposure
Antioch district working to fix inadvertent disclosure of employee data
Paul Burgarino reports: District officials have been working to fix an inadvertent disclosure of some personal employee information that spread last week via email. While a former Antioch Unified employee was trying to pass on information about a replacement’s responsibilities at the end of the workday Jan. 18, the employee attached a file to an…
Cheyney University notifies students after e-mail attachment gaffe
The Associated Press reports that 2,100 current and former students at Cheyney University of Pennsylvania have been sent letters after an administrative e-mail sent to all students yesterday erroneously contained an attached file with their names, addresses, and Social Security numbers.
E-number spreadsheet with Eastern Illinois University student data leaked
Chacour Koop reports: The grade point averages of 430 students were released to 65 students about two and a half weeks ago, which is a violation of the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). Robert Miller, Eastern’s general counsel, has refused to comment on the violations. Sue Harvey, Eastern’s registrar and FERPA officer, has…
HK: School websites compromised data privacy
Here’s something you likely won’t see here in the U.S. – partly because we don’t have a Privacy Commissioner and partly because the U.S. Department of Education remains disturbingly placid about all the breaches in the education sector – the government of Hong Kong issued the following statement: The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for…
GA: Personal Info Left on City Computer Hard Drives Sold to Computer Repair Shop
Andrew Reeser reports: A computer repair shop in Macon that bought used computers from a government auction site says the ones they were sold had personal information of city employees still in the hard drives. A police report says BC Computer Repair in Macon bought the computers on govdeals.com in 2011. Then, on January 5th…