As a survivor of New Math, it’s somewhat amazing that I’m willing to deal with numbers or math at all. Yet, here I am, with a simple equation as today’s New Math: UNCC + UN = time for regulation Simple, elegant, and somewhat nonsensical as a math equation, but two recent education sector breaches do…
Category: Commentaries and Analyses
University of Nebraska breach needs to reverberate in Washington, D.C.
The University of Nebraska disclosed a breach last week, which I dutifully entered on DataLossDB. The breach sounded like it could be huge, despite the university’s statement that it had no evidence (at that time) that any data had been downloaded: The NeSIS database includes Social Security numbers, addresses, grades, transcripts, housing and financial aid…
UK: Medical and social security records being stored unlawfully and inappropriately accessed, statistics show
Cahal Milmo reports: Medical and social security records kept by public bodies are being unlawfully or inappropriately accessed dozens of times a month and hundreds of civil servants disciplined for data offences, according to Government records. Staff at the Department for Work and Pension (DWP) are being reprimanded at a rate of nearly five per…
How do you view your customers?
Wow. I just read some really offensive advice by Ronald Raether about what to say after a data breach. Well, I should be clear that I didn’t read all of his advice because I stopped reading after his first answer to the interviewer: RONALD RAETHER: The first place to start is with defining the goals….
High school hack: Teenager suspended for accessing confidential school records and posting them on Facebook
David Collins of The Mirror reports: A teenager hacked into his school’s “secure” database and posted pupils’ disciplinary records on Facebook. Lewis Blessed, 15, was suspended from classes for nine days after revealing confidential staff comments about children who had misbehaved. But his mum Andrea, 43, says the school over-reacted – because her son simply…
Morning musing
If posting has been light, there are reasons. For one thing, I’ve been entering most new incidents directly into DataLossDB.org. If you’re not already checking DLDB and you want to really keep up with breach reports, bookmark that resource. But I’m also in data heaven right now, having received 3+ years’ of data breach reports…