ABC in Australia reports: The Australian National University has been hit by a massive data hack, with unauthorised access to significant amounts of personal details dating back 19 years. A sophisticated operator accessed the ANU’s systems illegally in late 2018 but the breach was only detected two weeks ago, the university said in a statement….
Category: Education Sector
MO: Data security breach affects thousands of students of Jefferson City Public Schools
A now-suspended employee of Jefferson City Public Schools transferred student files containing medical information and student identification numbers to a personal email account, the district said in a news release Wednesday. The district said it recently determined the employee transferred the files into a personal Gmail account, which is a violation of district policy. The…
Utah knew the company it picked to create standardized tests had a history of crashes and cyberattacks. It signed a $44 million contract with Questar anyway.
Courtney Tanner reports: In other states, the year-end tests were marked by glitches and cyberattacks and hourlong delays. One school district threw out its results because the software was so unreliable. In another, all of the students had to start over when the programming shut down and didn’t save their responses. Sensitive student data was…
How I hacked into a college’s website again!
Aditya Anand writes: This is a follow up article to the previous piece that I wrote – How I hacked into a college’s website to obtain the student’s database. Refer to my last hack – How I hacked into a college’s website! …. What was different than the last time? The last time I tried to hack…
‘The college won’t tell us anything’: After data breach, Augustana College alumni are demanding answers
As we know, incident response and notification dsn’t always go smoothly, and people may be increasingly frustrated by the lack of information they can obtain.
Update: Georgia Tech to offer credit monitoring after data breach affecting 1.3M
Aaron Diamant reports: ATLANTA – Georgia Tech is taking steps to help people whose personal information may have been compromised during a data breach. Channel 2’s Aaron Diamant has been following this story since it broke in April, when the college said someone gained unauthorized access to a web application, affecting nearly 1.3 million people, including “some current…