Add Thomas Nelson Community College to the list of colleges and universities disclosing breaches in 2015. The college learned on December 9, 2015, that on December 8, 2015, confidential student information including name, address, phone number, Social Security number, student identification number, date of birth, immunization dates, background check results (no offenses listed), grades, and student progress indicators were…
Category: Education Sector
UK: Unknown number of students hit by glitch that delivered SACE students wrong uni entry scores
Tim Williams reports: Education Minister Susan Close has admitted she does not know how many Year 12 students were affected by the SACE computer bungle that delivered the wrong university entrance scores. Some students were presented with someone else’s uni entrance details when they logged onto the SACE website on Tuesday morning, in an embarrassing privacy…
UK: Schools reported for hack attacks and data breaches avoid ICO punishment
From the get-of-jail-free dept., Freddie Whittaker reports: Dozens of schools that breached data protection rules have walked away without punishment, despite being reported to the information watchdog. New figures obtained exclusively by Schools Week show that during the past school year the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) dealt with 66 reports of breaches by schools of the Data…
More details emerge on Hellgate student info breach
And this, children, is another reminder of what can go oh-so-very-wrong when you don’t follow procedures and protocols. Cassidy Belus reports: Missoula County Public Schools held a press conference Dec. 15 to address the recent Hellgate data breach, which accidentally released personal student information via email. Information about approximately 1,100 students were released. Assistant principal Libby…
Personal and sensitive data of 59,000 charter school students in California leaked: researcher
California Virtual Academies (CAVA) is a network of 11 publicly funded charter k-12 schools in California. Researcher Chris Vickery recently contacted DataBreaches.net after he found a database with 58,694 of their students’ records leaking. In addition to a lot of personal information on the students that was all in plain text, the leaking data included some information on student…
Member of Computer Hacking Group “NullCrew” Pleads Guilty in Cyber-Attacks on Corporations, Universities and Governments
Here’s the government’s press release on Timothy French’s plea yesterday: A Tennessee man pleaded guilty in federal court today to charges he helped launch cyber-attacks on corporations, universities and governmental entities throughout the world. As a member of the hacking group “NullCrew,” TIMOTHY JUSTEN FRENCH exploited computer vulnerabilities to obtain unauthorized access and steal confidential…