Earlier this month, notifications were sent that Concordia’s online course systems, eConcordia and KnowledgeOne, had been hacked. Kelsey Litwin reported: An email sent out on April 11 read that, “specifically that your name, your Concordia ID number and your email address, may have been consulted or obtained” via unauthorized access to the sites’ information system….
Category: Education Sector
U. of California moves to shut down alleged fraudsters misusing more than 500 students’ health insurance plan
UC Office of the President Thursday, April 20, 2017 The University of California today (April 20) announced it has uncovered a massive scheme targeting students through its student health plan that fraudulently obtained student information and then stole almost $12 million from UC by writing phony medical prescriptions in the students’ names. The university plans…
Cleveland Metropolitan School District discloses phishing-related incident
Cleveland Metropolitan School District, (“CMSD”), recently discovered an event that that may affect the security of personal and financial information of a select group of employees, students, their guardians, and/or other affiliates of CMSD. What Happened? On March 6, 2017, CMSD determined that certain categories of employee, student, and/or guardian information contained in a limited…
PAUSD student data exposed in Schoolzilla data breach
So we’re beginning to learn a bit more about the Schoolzilla data breach that MacKeeper Security Research Center’s Chris Vickery reported yesterday. Chris had reported that 1.3 million students had their data in the misconfigured Amazon bucket, but he couldn’t be more specific as to where these students came from as he deleted the data…
He’s got access to your students’ info and is trying to decide what to do. Now what will YOU do?
So far, I have not attempted to validate the claims in a post spotted on a dark web forum, below. I am posting it in the hopes that it will make some teachers – and school administrators – think about when was the last time they did a password reset, and might this be a good time to…
Student privacy breached in Victoria Education Department blunder
Another breach involving sensitive information. Sophie Smith reports: The Victorian Education Department has said it is “deeply sorry” for mistakenly publishing private and sensitive information about homeschooled children on its website. Confidential information contained in submissions made to the department was published when the documents were uploaded without redactions on Friday. Details that identified students who…