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Posted on June 21, 2015 by Dissent

Recaps of a few more breach reports I recently read: Diman Regional Vocational Technical High School in New Hampshire joined the ranks of those who have made email attachment errors that exposed employee information to other employees and staff. Information in the spreadsheet included information on current and former employees: names, gender, Social Security numbers, benefit…

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Schools official mistakenly leaks student data in PowerPoint document

Posted on June 19, 2015 by Dissent

Donna St. George reports: When the chief technology officer for Montgomery County schools gave a talk at a conference in Missouri a few years ago, he used a PowerPoint presentation that mistakenly included the names and photos of 16 Bethesda kindergartners, along with phone numbers. It also listed the names, student identification numbers and reading…

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St. Martin Parish School Based Health Centers breach

Posted on June 19, 2015 by Dissent

As I’ve often noted on PogoWasRight.org, student health records are generally covered under FERPA, not HIPAA. When a school district provides a health center, however, the student’s health records may be covered by HIPAA, as seems to be the case with the St. Martin Parish School Based Health Centers in Louisiana. They notified HHS last…

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No private info exposed in 2nd Lewisburg Area School District breach

Posted on June 19, 2015 by Dissent

Marcia Moore reports: A second computer breach in the Lewisburg Area School District in March did not expose any personal student or staff information, Superintendent Mark DiRocco said. Unlike the October incident in which the FBI was called to assist the Buffalo Valley Regional Police investigating a Lewisburg student who twice hacked a school cafeteria…

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Georgia Man Pleads Guilty To Filing 62 Fraudulent Tax Returns

Posted on June 19, 2015 by Dissent

Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia announced that Bryant T. Johnson, aged 26, of Albany, Georgia entered a guilty plea to one count of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft on June 17, 2015 before the Honorable W. Louis Sands, Senior U. S. District Court Judge,…

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Calgary teen charged in public school board student data hack

Posted on June 19, 2015 by Dissent

Erika Tucker reports: A 15-year-old Calgary teen has been arrested and charged with hacking into public school board servers between November 2014 and March 2015. The teen allegedly hacked into the Calgary Board of Education (CBE) servers using phishing e-mails and credentials. Police say once in the server, he accessed corporate and personal information, but wouldn’t…

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