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Update on Midland ISD data theft

Posted on February 6, 2014 by Dissent

In the wake of the Midland ISD breach where 14,000 current and former students’ information was on hard drive stolen from an administrator’s car, I asked: Was the administrator violating any established policy or was there no policy in place that says, “Hey, dummy, don’t leave PII lying around?” It turns out there really wasn’t any…

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MI: Hacker steals teacher’s direct deposit paycheck: University says too bad so sad

Posted on February 5, 2014 by Dissent

Darlene Storm reports: No matter how much you love your job, very few people work for free. About 80% of Americans receive their paychecks via direct deposit, but if a hacker manages to reroute your paycheck to his or her account, is that just tough luck and you don’t get paid? That’s basically what a…

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TX: 14,000 Midland ISD students risk identity theft because of sloppy security

Posted on February 4, 2014 by Dissent

From the oh-FFS-dept.: AP reports: The identity information of 14,000 past and present Midland Independent School District students has been compromised by a computer theft. Midland school Superintendent Ryder Warren says a laptop computer and external hard drive containing the information was stolen from the back of a district administrator’s car on Jan. 23. He…

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Data for 685 Fairfax students mistakenly posted online

Posted on February 3, 2014 by Dissent

T. Rees Shapiro reports that Fairfax County School District has had yet another breach involving student data: Personal information for hundreds of Fairfax County public school students was mistakenly posted on the school system’s Web site, exposing their school identification numbers, birth dates, home addresses and phone numbers in what parents described as a breach…

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11 high school students disciplined for keylogging teachers’ computers

Posted on January 30, 2014 by Dissent

Cyrus Farivar has the update to the case of students involving in hacking  to change grades at Corona del Mar High School: A hacking scandal involving keyloggers and electronic grade-changing at a high school in Newport Beach, a well-to-do area of Southern California, has resulted in the expulsion of 11 students. TheOrange County Register reported Wednesday that six…

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CA: Parents: Hacking in school reaches beyond 11 facing expulsion

Posted on January 28, 2014 by Dissent

Lauren Steussy and Melody Petersen have an update to a breach previously reported on this blog: Parents of some of the students accused of cheating at Corona del Mar High School are questioning why their children have been targeted for expulsion, arguing the scope of the scandal spans far more widely. In letters sent recently to…

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