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Employee error exposed San Jose Evergreen Community College District student info

Posted on December 3, 2016 by Dissent

The  San Jose Evergreen Community College District (SJECCD) is notifying some of their students of a breach that occurred due to an employee error. On November 7, the district learned that an SJECCD employee had inadvertently uploaded a file containing the personal information of certain SJECCD students to a publicly accessible folder on the SJECCD website. The file…

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Anonymous group releases 1,768 student GPAs from Appalachian State University

Posted on December 3, 2016 by Dissent

Sammy Hanf reports: A group called AppState Leaks released the information via their Twitter page of the same name this Thursday. The PDF posted contains student’s first names, majors, year and GPA. The university’s Information Security Department is currently conducting an investigation into the breach. The university said in a statement there is no indication…

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Michigan State University to spend $2.9 million in wake of data breach

Posted on December 2, 2016 by Dissent

Marie Weidmayer reports: MSU will spend an estimated $2.9 million on identity theft protection in the wake of the data breach that exposed university records of about 400,000 people. According to a statement from MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon, MSU will provide credit monitoring and identity theft protection free of charge to everyone affected. “We have a reserve fund that…

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NL: Erasmus University Data Breach Exposed Students’ Medical and Financial Information

Posted on November 30, 2016 by Dissent

JP Buntinx reports: When Erasmus University was hacked a couple of weeks ago, it appeared that only student names, addresses, and logins were obtained. But that is only part of the real story. A total of 270,000 webforms residing on one particular web server were breached during the attack. Close to 5,000 forms contain student medical information,…

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NYS audit of Glen Cove City School District finds deficiencies in IT procedures

Posted on November 30, 2016 by Dissent

NYS Comptroller DiNapoli has released the state’s audit of the Glen Cove City School District . The audit concerned portable electronic devices. Key findings from the audit: There was no written policy for notifying the IT office of new hires, keeping track of equipment assigned to employees and collecting equipment when an employee leaves District employment. The District’s…

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Carleton U. hit by ransomware, students told to keep Windows PCs away

Posted on November 29, 2016 by Dissent

Iain Thomson reports: Carleton University in Ontario, Canada, has confirmed it has been hit by a ransomware infection that crippled some of the Windows machines on its main campus. Systems at the university started to go down on Tuesday, and its IT department reported that email, network drives and the central university student portal had…

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