Eric Mark reports: An email mistakenly sent by Luzerne County Community College to staff and faculty members on Wednesday has raised privacy concerns about personal information contained in an attachment to the message. The email, sent Wednesday afternoon to 264 full-time LCCC employees, concerned revisions to W-2 forms for faculty and staff members. However, the…
Category: Education Sector
Data breach at Illinois State University involving payments to employees
Adam Studzinski reports that a data breach at Illinois State University caused the payroll of 13 university employees to be misdirected. But from the coverage, it doesn’t sound like their payments were misdirected to other employees, but rather, to criminals. The university is investigating how the breach occurred. Groves added it appears at least five other universities…
Stolen contractor laptop had special-education student data for Montgomery County students
Donna St. George reports: A contractor working with the Montgomery County school system has informed the parents of about 340 special-education students that the children’s private data was on a computer stolen during a break-in. WestEd, a nonprofit research organization, acquired the student data from Montgomery County school officials as it conducted a review of…
Update: Second arrest in Jackson State U. data breach (updated)
Jasmina Alston reports that a second student has now been arrested in connection with the theft – and creation of a searchable database of – 40,000 Jacksonville State University student and faculty data. According to the university, suspects obtained the data by using log in information for a management database used by an institutional office. This is still…
Pickens County School District computer network overloaded by hackers
A number of school districts are reportedly being hit with DDoS attacks over the past few weeks. Is anyone claiming responsibility on social media or elsewhere? Or does anyone know why these districts are being targeted? If so, please contact me.
University of California – Berkeley alerting 80,000 to December hack involving SSN or bank account info (UPDATE1)
From the University of California – Berkeley: UC Berkeley officials are sending alert notices to approximately 80,000 current and former faculty, staff, students and vendors following a criminal cyberattack on a system storing their Social Security or bank account numbers. The campus has no evidence that any unauthorized individual actually accessed, acquired or used any…