Laura Cudworth reports: About 6,000 former high school students had personal information compromised after a staff member at the Avon Maitland District School Board transferred the files electronically. The board was alerted to the security breach, which lasted about five weeks, when a former student did a search of her own name and was able…
Category: Education Sector
University of Central Oklahoma discloses hack, notifying those affected
From their website (h/t, KFOR): Letter to the UCO Community – March 13, 2014 Dear UCO Community Member, On March 12, 2014, the University of Central Oklahoma discovered a breach of sensitive personal information due to unauthorized access to information stored on one of our servers. Some members of the university community are being directly…
More University of Pittsburgh Medical Center employees report becoming tax refund fraud victims
Karen Zapf and Adam Brandolph report that as many as 322 UPMC employees have been affected by the breach, the system said last week. Read more on TribLive. Note that although the TribLive headline and story referred to this as a UPMC breach, I don’t think it’s actually been confirmed that UPMC had a breach,…
University of Maryland data breach smaller than first thought
WBAL reports: The data breach at the University of Maryland is smaller than first announced. According to the university’s website, there were 287,580 records breached, about 21,499 fewer than first reported. But here’s the better-late-than-never news of note: The school said 78 percent of the records in the affected database have now been permanently purged,…
Behind The Scenes—What One Major University Learned After A Data Breach
Jeanne Price of idRADAR interviewed a University of Maryland spokesperson about their recent breach. The interview provides a nice insider’s perspective on breach response, and you may wish to read it all here. Perhaps the most startling revelation was this one: UMD did not have a data breach crisis plan in place before the event,…
CA: San Juan Unified School District notifies parents of information security breach
Sharokina Shams reports: Officials at a Sacramento school district are notifying parents that records containing personal identifying information were found at the Southern California home of a wire fraud suspect. The San Juan Unified School District posted the information on its website Friday, one day after KCRA 3 informed the district that an FBI investigation had…