There’s yet another update to the Hellgate High School breach that was first disclosed in December. Chelsea Davis reports that alumni, former students, transfers and even deceased students also were included in December’s data breach. Read more on The Missoulian.
Category: Education Sector
NY: Troy CSD officials: Security breach may have threatened student information (UPDATED)
WRGB reports: School officials are working to determine the source of a security breach they say had the potential to put student information at risk. Administrators say they were alerted to a hack on a district server, and have reached out to police and a cyber-security firm to investigate the problem. District officials say they…
UCF hit with potential class action lawsuit in Social Security hack
That was quick – but also interesting. Sean Levin reports: A former University of Central Florida student body president and member of UCF’s Board of Trustees filed a class action lawsuit against the university Friday after being victimized in UCF’s massive Social Security number hack. The lawsuit was filed in federal court, in the Orlando…
VA: Stolen University of Mary Washington laptop held SSN (UPDATED)
Add University of Mary Washington to any list you’re keeping of education entities that have reported a breach in 2016. The university recently started notifying an unknown number of people that a university-issued laptop with names, addresses, and Social Security numbers was reported stolen in transit. The details of the theft were not disclosed, but the…
Former Cuesta College employee sentenced for identity theft
There’s a follow-up to an insider breach at Cuesta College first noted on this site in June, 2015. The employee in question, Lacey Fowler, 30, was a human resources analyst at the college and used her position to access co-workers’ information to open up credit accounts in the victims’ names. She had pleaded no contest to…
CA: 356 Oakmont High School students’ transcripts stolen from counselor’s car
KCRA reports that identity information of 356 Oakmont High School students and their parents was stolen when student transcripts were stolen from a guidance counselor’s car. The unnamed counselor had taken the transcripts home with her to work last month, and the transcripts belonged to students with last names beginning with P through Ta. KCRA reports that the…