Not all phishing attempts are spear-phishing for W-2 forms. The University of Idaho is notifying employees whose personal information was in an employee’s email account after the employee fell for a phishing attack. From their notification: On January 24, 2017, we detected that one of our accounts was being used to send phishing email. The…
Category: Education Sector
Sunnyside Unified School District email gaffe exposed employees’ info
Barbara Grijalva and Maria Hechanova report: A pretty big mistake had Tucson’s second largest school district scrambling to make sure its employees won’t be hurt. Personal employee information was accidentally emailed to every Sunnyside Unified School District employee. That’s more than 2,000 people. According to the district’s IT department, at least 559 employees opened that email….
Daytona State College notifies staff of potential W-2 incident
On February 19, I reported that I was finding 2016 W-2 tax statements for sale on the darknet. In that post, I noted that I was not identifying one Florida college I had contacted that day to alert them that at least one of their employees’ W-2 statements was up for sale – and that others might…
Greater Essex County District School Board investigating exposure of staff information on internal network
Maureen Revait reports: BlackburnNews.com has learned personal information of staff members at the Greater Essex County District School Board has been accessed in a possible data breach. An email that was sent out to staff was sent to BlackburnNews.com anonymously. It says information such as the names, dates of birth, social security number and direct deposit…
Missouri proposal requires schools to tell you when child’s information stolen
Stephanie Garland reports: Right now the state auditor said hackers can steal your sensitive information and school districts do not have to tell you. That could change this August before some schools start. […] If passed, a new bill would change that and require school districts to report data breaches to parents and the government….
GA: FBI investigating hack of Kennesaw State University server, including state voter data
Aaron Diamant reports: The FBI is investigating an alleged hack of Kennesaw State University server. Channel 2 Investigative Reporter Aaron Diamant reports the state voter data kept by the Center for Election Systems was compromised. Sources tell Diamant the hack happened Wednesday night and voter data maintained there was compromised. Read more on WSBTV. In related…