Mike Lepp reports: The Columbia County School District has revealed that one of their servers suffered a data breach. The attack happened on November 28th when one of their servers was breached by an outside source. […] The affected server did not contain any student data, but it DID contain confidential employee information, including names,…
Category: Education Sector
University of Nebraska-Lincoln notifies 30,000 of breach that may have occurred two years ago
Chris Dunker reports: A breach of a University of Nebraska-Lincoln computer server potentially exposed thousands of student names, ID numbers and grades to an outside source, campus officials said Tuesday. In a letter sent to approximately 30,000 current and former students, UNL said an unauthorized breach of a server hosting a math placement exam occurred…
State rebuts fault in Frederick County Public Schools data breach
Jeremy Bauer-Wolf reports: Frederick County Public Schools said on Monday that it is likely that students’ personal information was stolen from a state government computer system, a claim that Maryland’s education department nevertheless rebuts. Names, birth dates and Social Security numbers of about 1,000 former Frederick County students who attended school between November 2005 and…
TX: CCISD notifies students of breach of personal info
The Corpus Christi Independent School District is offering 443 of their former students and one current student free credit monitoring service, after their Social Security numbers were published to the internet. Source: KRISTV
MI: Alpena Public Schools Superintendent says ransomware was “just some inconvenience”
David Holsted reports: Computer hackers didn’t get money out of Alpena Schools. The district is the latest victim of ransomware, a denial-of-access attack that prevents computer users from accessing files. However, Superintendent Andrea Martin said the district did not pay the ransom, and no harm was done to the files. No important information was lost….
IL: Security breach could affect Black Hawk College employees
Anthony Watt reports: Information about Black Hawk College employees and their dependents could have been compromised in a hack of a former insurance provider’s server. Summit Reinsurance Services Inc. has notified the college that the names, Social Security numbers, health insurance information and medical records of 1,000 current and former employees could have been accessed…