We don’t see breach notifications from k-12 districts that often, but here’s one submitted to the California Attorney General’s Office from the Mt. Diablo Unified School District: On April 27, 2017, when parents tried to access their student’s data through the HomeLink Portal, they were able to view information, as described below, of a student…
Category: Education Sector
TN: Williamson County Schools warns parents of security breach in student/teacher software
A follow-up on a breach previously noted on this site. I imagine we’ll see a number of these from school districts in the weeks and months to come. Williamson County Schools sent a message to parents Friday warning about a security breach of it’s (sic) Edmodo system putting student and parent information at risk. The…
Hacker Steals Millions of User Account Details from Education Platform Edmodo
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…
University of New Mexico Foundation notifies community of data breach
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…
Confluence charter school servers are hacked
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…
‘TuftsLeaks’ releases documents containing sensitive financial information
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….