Shelby Webb reports: Katy ISD warned about 78,000 of its students and staff members that their personal data – including social security numbers, names and birth dates – may have been accessed during a security breach. Katy officials notified parents in a letter dated Oct. 7, more than a month after it learned of the…
Category: Education Sector
Audit details cybersecurity concerns in Missouri schools
Dale Singer reports: Missouri school districts need to tighten controls over student data and other information to help ensure they do not fall into the wrong hands for the wrong purpose, a state audit said Thursday. Using information she gleaned earlier this year from audits on five districts, including Orchard Farm in St. Charles County, state Auditor…
University of Central Florida police trace credit card fraud to restaurant malware
Gabrielle Russon reports: UCF police have determined that a vendor whose restaurants had malware on its computers is the potential root of the spike in campus credit card fraud cases last month. The issue was found with AD Food Services, which operates Asian Chao, Huey Magoo’s and the Corner Café in the Student Union, the…
OH: District officials: Data breach affected only a few students
Nate Ellis reports: Tech-savvy Upper Arlington High School students recently used their know-how and computers issued by the district to access privileged information of their peers, according to school officials. District officials informed parents via email Oct. 5 that “some students” had discovered a way to use their district-issued laptop computers to access an active…
Ca: Private student information mistakenly posted online by Surrey School Board
Jilly Slattery reports: Some Surrey parents are enraged after discovering their private information and their children’s school attendance records were publicly posted online. The absentee records from Frank Hurt Secondary School were posted online in 2014, and remained there for anyone to see until recently. The list included names, phone numbers, and addresses, and some sensitive…
Hackers target University of Central Florida students
Matt Grant reports that more than 100 UCF students have had their debit and credit cards compromised after using them on campus. UCF does not yet know whether this is due to an wifi encryption issue connected to the payment processing. Read more on WESH.