Ed Kemmick reports: Forsyth Public Schools were hit with computer malware over the weekend, causing problems for teachers, students, parents and district administrators. The good news, Superintendent Dinny Bennett said, is that whoever did the damage “did not hack our system to take information, just to corrupt it.” The software program that ran the student…
Category: Education Sector
Ca: Carleton staff, students urged to change passwords after potential security breach
Michelle McQuigge reports: Carleton University is urging caution among staff and students after discovering potential hacking tools on a handful of classroom computers. The university says it discovered USB key-logging devices on six classroom computers across three university buildings. Carleton says staff discovered the devices last week during what it called a routine classroom inspection,…
Daytona State College discovers second breach
Whoa. While investigating an employee W-2 breach that DataBreaches.net first alerted them to in February, Daytona State College discovered that they had had another breach – one involving student financial aid applications. The breach affected the personal and financial information of an unspecified number of students and their parents. Read more on WFTV.
Coastal Carolina University works to recover money stolen in phishing scam
Lisa Gresci reports: Coastal Carolina University continues to work to recover money that was stolen from the college in a phishing scam. A release from CCU stated an individual who claimed to represent a company under contract with the university contacted its financial services via email and requested to change the company’s bank account information….
Held for selling information on students
Chen Huizhi reports: A former marketing manager at the private educational service New Oriental has been arrested in connection with exchanging and trading tens of millions of items of personal contact information about students, Shanghai police said. The suspect, a 34-year-old man surnamed Gu, was reported to have claimed making a profit of about 10,000…
Il: Student expelled for hacking professors’ emails
Shahar Chai reports: An electrical engineering student in the Technion Institute of Technology has been expelled from the university after hacking his professors’ emails and stealing information, including at least one exam. The incident happened a few months ago, but this week the university decided to file a complaint against the student with the police….