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UK: University of Nottingham mistakenly sends e-mail containing personal details of job applicants

Posted on May 20, 2014 by Dissent

Marcus Boocock reports: Confidential details of thousands of job applicants were mistakenly sent via e-mail by the University of Nottingham. An attachment sent to users of the university’s job site contained the names of 4,751 people who had applied for a job there. It also listed whether they had been successful. A spokesman for the…

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Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine students notified of breach by benefits administrator Hubbard-Bert

Posted on May 17, 2014 by Dissent

Hubbard-Bert is the benfits administrator for students at Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine. On April 24, they learned that spreadsheets containing personal information of some LECOM students was inadvertently exposed on the Internet due to a misconfiguration of a test server on April 14 (yes, a test server should not have live data for exactly…

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Commentary: We need a congressional inquiry into the MCCCD breach

Posted on May 17, 2014 by Dissent

President Truman had a sign on his desk that said, “The buck stops here.” We could use more of that accountability when it comes to data breaches in the education sector. Back in 2006, when I first began blogging about data breaches on PogoWasRight.org, I covered a series of breaches at Ohio University. One of the things that…

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University of Nebraska – Omaha Investigating Security Breach Involving Personal Information

Posted on May 16, 2014 by Dissent

KPTM reports: School officials at UNO say they are investigating unauthorized access to an administrative server within campus security. They say an incident was discovered last week during  a security scan and that the server contained files with personal information and Social Security numbers. Police are looking into the case to see if any individuals’ personal…

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SD: Student charged with hacking into Catholic high school’s network

Posted on May 14, 2014 by Dissent

A 17-year-old student has been charged with hacking into a high school’s computer network, causing the system to shut down, police said. The teenage boy has been charged with felony intentional damage to property after hacking into O’Gorman High School‘s computer network Thursday morning. He was arrested that afternoon, police said. Read more on Argus…

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Dozens of New Jersey City University employees victims of tax refund fraud

Posted on May 9, 2014 by Dissent

Mike D’Onofrio reports: Dozens of employees at New Jersey City University had their identities stolen and federal tax returns filed in their names after a security breach allowed access to their personal information., school and employee union officials confirmed. Union leaders at the Jersey City university say as many as 39 union members have been…

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