Bethany Bruner reports: Students at the Career and Technology Education Center of Licking County may have had their personal information, including names and social security numbers, exposed to a hacker earlier this year. Brian Wilfong, Public Relations and Marketing Coordinator for C-TEC, said the school first learned of a possible data breach on April 19….
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Purdue data breach exposes personal info of 26K prospective students
Ron Wilkins reports: Personal information of 26,598 prospective Purdue students found its way to a parent of a possible student, Purdue spokesman Jim Bush said Thursday in a news release. The file with the personal information was mistakenly sent to a parent of prospective student on May 17. “While Purdue regrets this error, we have…
Lake Oswego School District warns students about phishing email after employee account hacked
KOIN 6 in Oregon reports: The culprit had no problem drawing attention. At 2:36 p.m., a tweet came out from the Lake Oswego School district Twitter account. In all caps, the tweet signaled a change in the account. Read more on KOIN 6. This may be more than just a hack of the district’s Twitter…
ZA: Eastern Cape’s massive schools data loss
Msindisi Fengu reports: Nearly all data containing information about thousands of Eastern Cape schools, pupils and teachers were wiped out of a multimillion-rand digital filing system at the start of the year. A report compiled by Sizwe IT Group, the company that installed and commissioned the Simplivity digital system that cost the provincial education department…
NY: North Colonie Central School District notifies retirees of data security breach
North Colonie Central School District in New York is notifying some retirees that their personal information was inadvertently exposed on the internet for a period of approximately six weeks. The breach occurred when a package of information the district made available to vendors to provide quotations on insurance services inadvertently failed to redact the names,…
University of Kansas computer hacker granted probation, ordered to apologize to professors
Sara Shepherd reports: A former University of Kansas student who hacked into the school’s computer system and changed his failing grades to A’s was granted probation for the resulting felony convictions. He also must write letters apologizing to the professors he fraudulently signed in as. As the prosecutor and his defense attorney had requested in…