Janet Kim reports: The Northshore School District is updating parents that student’s emails were not hacked, instead were spammed after first warning parents that an outsider gained access to student emails. Now students are locked out of their emails with just weeks left in the school year, as the district investigates this serious security breach….
Category: Education Sector
NY: Holley Central School District investigates possible hacking
WHAM reports: The Holley Central School District Superintendent Robert D’ Angelo tells 13WHAM a server containing past and present staff data has been hacked. “As soon as we learned of this, the portal through which the hack may have been made was shut down and additional measures were taken to reduce the possibility of further…
Rostering, Provisioning, Owning Your Stack, and Transparency: a Look at Lewis Palmer
The Lewis Palmer School District data security vulnerability and breach continues to concern parents, and I had updated my original post with some observations by Bill Fitzgerald. Now Bill has written his own post on the situation. Giving myself unbridled permission to quote liberally from his thoughtful write-up, here’s part of it: At the 5/19 school…
Probable security breach may have compromised thousands of Lewis Palmer students’ data
Sherrie Pief reports: Lewis-Palmer School District 38 officials are mum about the probability that a security breach related to its Infinite Campus platform may have compromised more than 2,000 students’ personal information. Infinite Campus is a software program that stores personal and academic information about students in the district. But wait… the district has known…
El Paso Independent School District employee accounts hacked, money stolen
David Crowder reports: In mid-April, computer hackers had five days’ access to the personal data of a reported 51 El Paso Independent School District employees and were able to redirect their April 15 paychecks. That’s what the district has told the employees who were hacked, including longtime teacher Anne Stewart. EPISD made good on the…
AZ: Gilbert Public Schools email hacked by junior high school student
AP reports: A junior high school student reportedly hacked into the email system of Gilbert Public Schools and sent inappropriate messages to other students. District officials said the Highland Junior High student got access to the teacher’s login information and emailed messages to other students over the weekend. Read more on The Arizona Republic. And the…