An update to this breach post. PA HomePage reports: The district has confirmed that student names, school district ID numbers, addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, and social security numbers from the school’s food service account were accessed through the school’s network. Read more on PA HomePage. In partial response, the district has stopped including…
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LA: Cohen College Prep High School investigates allegations of possible identity theft
Rob Masson reports: Some parents are worried about an alleged identity thief who they say gained access to the Cohen Prep campus. They say a woman posing as an employer took social security numbers from as many as 40 students and their friends, but school officials say their investigation has failed to corroborate the story….
NC: Some Granville school system employees hit by security breach
Danielle Hairston reports: Granville County Schools wants to protect employees’ identities after a security breach last week. The district discovered a check worth $15,880 in employees’ May retirement deductions was fraudulently altered and cashed. According to the reports filed with the Attorney General’s Office, the district sent five checks to ING in June. Along with…
PA: Data Security Breach at Lewisburg Area School District
Nikki Krize reports: Lewisburg Area School District officials discovered this week that someone got into a data file with all that private information about students. Buffalo Valley Regional Police say there is a suspect and he is a student in the Lewisburg Area School District. District officials would not confirm if the student has been…
FL: Return Preparer Sentenced In Identity Theft Tax Refund Scheme Involving Personal Identification Information Of Miami-Dade County Public School Students
There’s an update to a case previously noted on this blog. Donald Claude, 34, of Miramar, was sentenced to 40 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay restitution of $210,120. Claude previously pled guilty to one count of wire fraud, in violation of Title 18,…
Arkansas State University-Beebe alerts students and employees to potential breach
Arkansas State University-Beebe issued a precautionary notice of a potential data breach regarding personally identifiable information of students and employees at its campuses located in Beebe, Heber Springs, Searcy and the Little Rock Air Force Base. The infected server did not contain credit card information for any current or former student or employee. On October…