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Cn: Hacker jailed for linking school website to pornography pages

Posted on May 20, 2015 by Dissent

Ke Jiayun reports: A hacker who gained control of a middle school’s website in Chongming County and linked it to pornography pages was sentenced to 10 months in jail for illegally controlling computers, Chongming County People’s Court said today in Shanghai. The man began hacking into systems three years ago and had broken into dozens…

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Chicago Public Schools breach affects 4,000 students

Posted on May 20, 2015 by Dissent

Melissa Sanchez reports: CPS mistakenly shared the names, home addresses, phone numbers, disability status and other personal information of 4,000 students to five vendors seeking to do business with the district. After learning of the unusual data breach, CPS officials say they took steps to remedy their actions. These include instructing the companies to dispose…

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Attorneys to argue jurisdiction in Shorter University security breach case

Posted on May 19, 2015 by Dissent

Northwest Georgia News has an update on a lawsuit that was filed in the wake of the theft of student records at Shorter University. The breach, disclosed in November 2014, allegedly resulted in ID theft and tax refund fraud, according to a lawsuit filed in February: The federal judge presiding over a civil lawsuit against Shorter…

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University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center sent 1,032 immunization records to state registry by mistake

Posted on May 16, 2015 by Dissent

Sherry Jacobson reports: UT Southwestern Medical Center accidentally transmitted the immunization records of about 1,000 patients to a confidential Texas registry used by physicians, health departments and school districts. Letters were sent last week to the UTSW patients involved, expressing regret that their vaccination information had been shared with ImmTrac, a statewide registry service used…

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3 Dixon High Students Suspended in Grade Data Breach

Posted on May 16, 2015 by Dissent

As an update to a previously reported incident: at least three students have been suspended so far in the grade-changing hack that has rocked Dixon High School. At least nine teacher accounts were hacked and 200 grades changed since January for 32 students. One teacher noticed something that resulted in the investigation, but I have yet…

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Penn State College of Engineering hacked; China suspected in at least one attack (updated)

Posted on May 15, 2015 by Dissent

University alerted by FBI in November 2014 18,000 whose SSN were on server being notified First attack may have occurred in September 2012 NBC reports: The engineering school at Penn State was the target of two sophisticated hacking attacks, one of which cybersecurity experts say originated in China, the university announced on Friday. While the university…

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