Deb Holland reports: Meade School District staff hope they have corrected an internal computer error that made hundreds and maybe thousands of Social Security numbers of former students available online last week. Meade Superintendent Don Kirkegaard said Saturday the computer breach came to his attention late Thursday. “Somehow, access to our transcript server was compromised,”…
Category: Education Sector
Update: Tutor in Corona del Mar High grade-hacking scandal arrested at LAX
There’s a follow-up to a breach previously noted on this blog. On October 6, Sean Emery reported: A tutor at the center of an alleged grade-changing scandal at Corona del Mar High School was arrested Monday when police say he returned to Southern California after fleeing the country. Timothy Lance Lai, 29, was taken into…
Update on Lewisburg Area School District breach
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…
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…