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Hacker Steals Millions of User Account Details from Education Platform Edmodo

Posted on May 17, 2017 by Dissent

Hmm. I missed this one by Joseph Cox last week: A hacker has stolen millions of user account details from popular education platform Edmodo, and the data is apparently for sale on the so-called dark web. Teachers, students and parents use Edmodo to work on lesson plans, assign homework, and more. The organization claims to…

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University of New Mexico Foundation notifies community of data breach

Posted on May 16, 2017 by Dissent

Jessica Dyer reports: A month after discovering a computer server breach that may have compromised personal information for about 23,000 people, the University of New Mexico Foundation has begun sending notification letters about the incident. The foundation on Monday mailed letters to the “potentially affected” donors, annuitants, foundation employees and vendors, according to a spokeswoman…

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Confluence charter school servers are hacked

Posted on May 8, 2017 by Dissent

Kristen Taketa reports: The network servers for Confluence Charter Schools in St. Louis were hacked over the weekend, but school leadership say they have no evidence yet that student or employee data were compromised. The hacking has affected the schools’ emails, phones, student information system and payroll system, CEO Candice Carter-Oliver said in a statement…

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‘TuftsLeaks’ releases documents containing sensitive financial information

Posted on May 7, 2017 by Dissent

Liam Knox reports: This week, a group calling itself TuftsLeaks published documents online that contain sensitive financial information from Tufts. The leak included department budgets, the salaries of thousands of staff and faculty and the ID numbers of student employees with salaries listed. Only student salaries from fiscal year 2015 were listed in the leaked documents….

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UK: Salaries of Plymouth University staff leaked two years after data breach

Posted on May 5, 2017 by Dissent

Sam Blackledge reports: Plymouth University lawyers are investigating a serious data protection breach which saw the salaries of more than 240 senior staff leaked. A confidential spreadsheet was sent to an incorrect e-mail address in error back in June 2015. The incident was reported to the Information Commissioner’s Office at the time, and no further…

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Hundreds of thousands of kids have identity info hacked from pediatricians’ offices

Posted on May 3, 2017 by Dissent

As Robert Lord of Protenus explains in the May issue of Compliance Today, pediatric patient data continues to remain not only vulnerable to criminals, but also quite valuable to them, in part because the medical records of these young patients provide criminals a blank slate upon which they can build a false identity. This—combined with the fact…

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