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SG: School’s data breach spooks students

Posted on November 18, 2017 by Dissent

Jan Lee reports: Ex-students from Xinmin Secondary School received a shock yesterday when they found out that their alma mater had suffered a data breach. Several told The New Paper they received calls from their former school yesterday, informing them that their names and identity card numbers had been leaked on pastebin.com, self-described as “where…

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CA: Privacy breaches in Stanford file system affect 200 people

Posted on November 17, 2017 by Dissent

Fangzhou Liu, Hannah Knowles and Ada Statler report on a breach that has nightmarish qualities to it:  very sensitive information exposed, but you can’t figure out for how long and you can’t determine who, if anyone, accessed it? Ugh….. Stanford is in the process of notifying some 200 people — a mix of employees and…

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More details emerge on AZ Board of Education student data breach

Posted on November 16, 2017 by Dissent

More details have emerged on a breach first noted on this site last month. Jim Small of the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting (AZCIR) reports that the breach occurred after AZCIR filed a public records request for records of appeals filed by students over letter grades issued by the state Board of Education.  On Oct….

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University of East Anglia investigates another data leak

Posted on November 10, 2017 by Dissent

Warwick Ashford reports: The University of East Anglia is investigating a second personal data leak in six months after an employee’s personal data was sent to hundreds of postgraduate research students. The email was sent on 5 November to about 300 recipients in the social science faculty. When the error was discovered, the university sent…

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Baylor College of Medicine notifies former applicants after data from 2016 breach found on publicly available web site

Posted on November 9, 2017 by Dissent

Baylor College of Medicine is sending notification letters to an unspecified number of former applicants.  In the letter, Randy Langenderfer, Vice President, Chief Compliance and Audit Officer writes that they first became aware of a possible database breach in October, 2016.  In November 2016, those affected were notified of the compromise. Now Langenderfer writes: In late…

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Montana district hacked, threatened by TheDarkOverlord; offers lessons to Spokane-area schools

Posted on November 8, 2017 by Dissent

There are a few interesting details on the Montana (Flathead) attack by TheDarkOverlord (TDO) in an article by Eli Francovich in The Spokesman-Review. It sounds like TDO used methods they’ve used in the past and did a good job of covering their digital footprints. I’ve started looking into the Flathead/Columbia Falls incident a bit more…

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