Justine Coyne reports employees at a Pittsburgh university are being notified after a package containing payroll reports from the university’s payroll vendor, Ceridian, arrived with the reports missing from the package: Point Park University on Wednesday alerted employees to a potential data breach involving names, home addresses, Social Security numbers and other information. The potential…
Category: Education Sector
Costs continue to mount in MCCCD breach
While I continue to wade through materials sent to this site concerning the Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) breach, Mary Beth Faller has an update on the costs of the breach: The cost to deal with the breach in the computer system at the Maricopa County Community College District could total $17.1 million, with most…
Tyler Junior College data leak exposed housing applicants’ Social Security numbers and dates of birth
I’ve occasionally commented that consumers shouldn’t have to go to the media to get a breach or data leak addressed. Neither should students, but that’s what happened this week to Kierra Perry. Perry applied to Tyler Junior College in Texas. As part of the process, she also applied for housing and completed the background check…
Jail time for university hacker who changed his grades to straight As
John Hawes reports: A former student of Purdue University in Indiana has been sentenced to 90 days in jail for his part in hacking into college computer systems and changing grades. Roy C. Sun is one of three former Purdue students thought to have been involved in the incident, which occurred between 2008 and 2010 when they…
IA: ID Theft: University Professors Victims
More than 50 employees at the University of Northern Iowa may have had their identities stolen. One professor says when he went to file his taxes, someone had already filed in his name. The university says when it got eight or nine similar cases it made them take notice. Now the IRS and Division of…
University of Maryland revises offer of free credit monitoring to five years, creates cybersecurity task force
The University of Maryland has lengthened the time of free credit monitoring it will offer to the hundreds of thousands of people whose personal information was compromised during a data breach. President Wallace Loh said in a statement posted Tuesday on the university’s website that those affected will be offered five years of free credit…