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Former assistant band director indicted for filing fraudulent tax returns using Broward students’ personal information

Posted on May 8, 2015 by Dissent

A Florida man who was a former assistant band director at a high school in Plantation, Florida was charged for his participation in an identity theft tax fraud scheme involving former Broward County students and other individuals’ personal identifying information (PII). Delvis Demaine Rogers, 27, was charged by indictment with one count of using one or more unauthorized…

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Oops – don’t forget to scrub those drivers license images!

Posted on May 6, 2015 by Dissent

On March 20, 2015, attorneys for the Central Dauphin School District in Pennsylvania notified the Maryland Attorney General’s Office of a breach involving visitors’ drivers license images. The district has a security system that involves scanning visitors’ drivers licenses when they enter the administration building. The laptop that stored those images, which was provided by…

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University of Illinois hacked?

Posted on May 5, 2015 by Dissent

After a period of relative quiet, it appears that the hacker known as “JM511” is back and busy. According to some tweets last night, the University of Illinois has been hacked via SQL injection: What’s happening? #JM511 I got #SqL_injection#blind On: ? http://t.co/qeD2Z3o8HN I’m Ur #nightmare @Illinois_Alma pic.twitter.com/wtIVjSzlt8 — JM511 Hacker☠ (@JM511) May 5, 2015 A screencap from the…

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Missouri high school student arrested on suspicion of hacking into school network

Posted on May 2, 2015 by Dissent

Heather Hourigan reports that a Fulton High School student has been arrested after hacking into the school’s computer system.  The attack, allegedly by Austin Singleton, caused the network to go down for several hours, although personal information was reportedly not affected. Read more on ABC and KOMU. While the news stories focus on the student’s arrest, there’s…

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NY: Two teens charged with felony tampering of school records

Posted on May 1, 2015 by Dissent

Two New York  high school students enrolled at Madrid-Waddington Central School  are facing third degree felony charges of computer tampering for allegedly accessing school district computers and changing records. Fox10 reports that the two youth, who have been identified as Mathew Hayes and Nicholas Ladoceour, allegedly accessed attendance, disciplinary, and grade records via the school’s intranet. According to…

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UC Berkeley announces another data breach

Posted on April 30, 2015 by Dissent

Their announcement: UC Berkeley officials announced today (Thursday, April 30) that they are sending alert notices to current students and other individuals regarding a computer data breach that may have resulted in unauthorized access to their Social Security numbers or other personal information. There is no evidence that such information has actually been used, but…

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