Brandon Gonez reports: The University of Regina (U of R) has launched an investigation after a privacy breach. Three personal computers from various faculties were hacked last week in two separate cyber attacks. According to the U of R, names, student and employee numbers, as well as social insurance numbers, may have been accessed. “There…
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JP: Teen faces charges over breach of online school grades management system
Kyodo News reports: A second arrest warrant was served on a 17-year-old boy Monday over the theft of some 210,000 digital files containing the grades of students in Saga Prefecture schools, police said. The boy, a resident of the city of Saga, is suspected of accessing an online system used by the prefecture’s public junior…
UK: John Moores University employee data leaked to former employee
Martin Thomas reports that someone at John Moores University goofed and emailed information on current employees to a former employee. The information was that contained in P60 forms, which from looking at a few samples online, appear to be similar to our W-2 statements in that they contain the employee’s name and address, the wages…
Hack exposes 1,500 University of Cambridge student and employee passwords
Patrick Howell O’Neill reports: Hackers successfully hit the University of Cambridge’s Cambridge Schools Classics Project website this week, exposing the email addresses and cleartext passwords of over 1,500 students and employees. The contents of the breach were released freely online earlier this week. On Thursday, a University of Cambridge spokesperson confirmed the incident to the Daily Dot….
Palm Beach County Resident Pleads Guilty in Stolen Identity Tax Refund Fraud Conspiracy Involving Students and Other Individuals’ Personal Identifying Information
A Palm Beach County resident pled guilty for his participation in a stolen identity tax refund fraud conspiracy involving students and other individuals’ personal identifying information (PII). Oniel Winston Scarlett, 28, pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, to retain and conceal monies stolen from the United States, and to commit identity…
Abingdon Avon employee arrested a month after a data breach
There’s a follow-up to an investigation noted previously on this site. KWQC reports that the he Abingdon-Avon School District’s IT Director has been arrested just a month after the district revealed it was investigating an employee for a data breach impacting student grades and grade point averages (GPAs). Court records show Mark L. Rodgers is charged with…