Violet Ikonomova reports: Leave it to kids in one of Michigan’s best school districts to have figured out how to hack the district’s grading system and (presumably) give themselves A’s. A message posted to the Bloomfield Hills Schools website alerts parents that “a couple” students made “some poor choices lately,” hacking into the district’s student…
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Ontario PC candidate resigns after private 407 freeway confirms ‘internal theft’ of data on 60,000 customers
Tom Blackwell reports: An employee of Ontario’s 407 private freeway quit suddenly Wednesday as a Progressive Conservative candidate in next month’s election, barely an hour after the highway confirmed that information on 60,000 customers had been leaked through an “internal theft.” Simmer Sandhu, the candidate for Brampton East, said in an online statement that he…
Gadsden High students accused of changing grades, cannot graduate
KVIA reports: A total of 55 students from Gadsden High School are accused of accessing an online computer program and changing their grades on their online courses. The school said students in various upper grade levels gained access to the access code that allowed them to change the grade of their work on curriculum software…
Data breach affects nearly 900 patients from two San Francisco hospitals
Catherine Ho reports: The personal information of nearly 900 patients of San Francisco General and Laguna Honda hospitals was breached after a former employee of one of the hospitals’ vendors got unauthorized access to the data, the San Francisco Public Health Department said Friday. The data included patients’ names, dates of birth, medical record numbers…
HIV Patient’s Records Leaked, UAMS Fires 3
KARK reports: University of Arkansas Medical Sciences fired three employees over sharing an HIV patient’s private medical information. The records included the patient’s name, age, surgical history, HIV status and employment information. The hospital says the employees were fired after being accused of violating their HIPAA oath. “We took action right away,” said Vice Chancellor…
Mass notification launched after inappropriate access to 1,756 Winnipeg patients’ data
Canadian Press reports: The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority says it will be contacting hundreds of patients in the coming weeks after a nurse inappropriately accessed their personal health information. The authority says in a release that the nurse, who had access to the emergency department information system for work at one site, inappropriately searched information…