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FL: Hernando college student charged with hacking accounts

Posted on June 26, 2014 by Dissent

Kathryn Varn reports: Pasco-Hernando State College student Amanda Yost blamed her boyfriend when she noticed that emails went missing on her account with the learning management website the school uses. He liked to play World of Warcraft on her Asus laptop, and Yost, 20, thought the game had introduced a virus. But after a multiweek investigation,…

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MS: USM looking into possible identity theft by staff member

Posted on June 26, 2014 by Dissent

Associated Press reports that the University of Southern Mississippi is investigating allegations that an employee accessed personal information of other employees on the Hattiesburg campus. The employee has resigned.

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University of California, Washington Center notifies alumni of vendor breach

Posted on June 26, 2014 by Dissent

The University of California, Washington Center (UCDC) recently notified alumni of a breach involving their course pre-enrollment system. As a result of the June 7 attack on UCDC’s cloud-based provider, GoSignMeUp.com, alumni’s usernames, postal and email addresses, passwords, gender, date of birth, and courses taken were accessed. The breach was discovered on June 9. The…

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CO: Summit School District corrects security breach that leaked student information

Posted on June 24, 2014 by Dissent

The Summit Daily reports: Last week Summit School District officials discovered a security issue that made some student and parent information available online. […] The information the parent found came from an internal student data file the district used for automated calls to parents about their children’s negative food account balances. The file contained the…

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MA: Uxbridge student data was on stolen Medicaid billing laptop

Posted on June 24, 2014 by Dissent

Susan Spencer reports:  Parents whose children received services in Uxbridge public schools that were partially covered by the state Medicaid program are being encouraged to request a security freeze on their children’s credit reports after a laptop containing personal information was stolen from a Medicaid vendor’s vehicle. Kevin M. Carney, superintendent of schools, sent a…

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Just in Time Research: Data Breaches in Higher Education

Posted on June 24, 2014 by Dissent

Just in Time Research: Data Breaches in Higher Education  This “Just in Time” research is in response to recent discussions on the EDUCAUSE Higher Education Information Security Council (HEISC) discussion list about data breaches in higher education. Using data from the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, this research analyzes data breaches attributed to higher education. The results…

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