Ouch. This isn’t a W-2 phishing attack, but in some ways, it seems even worse. Carmel Unified School District notified employees that a successful phishing attack had gained access to an employee’s email account that had “a limited number of documents.” Those documents may have contained employees’ or dependents’ information: Employee social security numbers Spouses’…
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MA: Release of employees’ partial Social Security numbers troubles Worcester teachers, School Committee members
Scott O’Connell reports: Teachers and School Committee members are looking for answers from the School Department in the wake of the district’s release of personal information for thousands of school employees to a testing company last year. According to Worcester Superintendent Maureen Binienda, the district’s IT department opted to use the last four digits of…
Names, banking information accidentally shared in emails to University of Waterloo students
CBC News reports: Personal information including names, student numbers, addresses and banking information of some University of Waterloo students was accidentally sent to a mailing list of 2,000 students, the school says. The emails went out Wednesday evening. Of the emails sent to the mailing list, 15 contained some private information like names and student numbers,…
Tufts expelled a student for grade hacking. She claims innocence
Zack Whittaker dives into the case of a Tufts veterinary student expelled for allegedly hacking Tufts to try to alter grades. As he reports in his meticulously researched and detailed piece: The case Tufts presented seems compelling, if not entirely believable. There’s just one problem: In almost every instance that the school accused Filler of…
Algonquin College faculty union files grievance over data breach
If you’re not transparent about a breach and people cannot figure out how to protect themselves, you may be almost guaranteeing people will sue you about it or file a grievance. CBC reports: The union representing faculty at Algonquin College has filed a grievance against the school after a recent data breach. Ontario Public Service Employees…
Hackers Broke Into Admissions Databases at 3 Colleges — and Then Offered to Sell Applicants Their Files
Eric Hoover reports: On Thursday morning a high-school senior in Texas received a strange email. “You are now presented with a unique opportunity,” it said, “to purchase your entire admissions file.” The message appeared to have been sent by Grinnell College, to which the student had applied. But Grinnell hadn’t sent the message; apparently, someone…