In an update to a breach involving student information at Tallahassee Community College, Charlton Escarmant, who was convicted in March, has been sentenced to 94 months in prison to be followed by 3 year of supervised release. A restitution hearing is scheduled for August 26, 2013. All of the press releases on this case mention that…
Category: Education Sector
NC: Page High School employee mistakenly releases 456 students’ information to a parent
Meanwhile, in North Carolina: Personal information, such as grades, phone numbers and home addresses, was mistakenly released for about 456 rising Page High seniors. On Tuesday, a school employee authorized to access the information accidentally released it to a student’s guardian, according to a news release from Guilford County Schools. The employee was answering an…
Chinese University website hacked and personal data stolen
From the South China Morning Post: The personal information of 60 students and teachers in Chinese University’s mechanical engineering department has been stolen and transferred to an overseas website by hackers, police said. Names, login IDs, student and staff numbers and e-mail addresses were stolen from a website for the online submission of work in…
Stolen Laptop May Have Compromised Students’ Personal Info
ABC in South Carolina reports: It’s a breech in security at the University of South Carolina. A spokesperson says a computer stolen from the physics and astronomy department at the end of April may have compromised the personal information of more than 6,000 students. We’re talking names, e-mail addresses and social security numbers. The affected…
FL: Teacher preparation data exposed online
Travis Pillow reports: Florida’s Education Commissioner is ordering a review of the state’s data security procedures after personal information for thousands of teachers-in-training was exposed on the Internet. The state Department of Education announced Saturday that personal information for about 47,000 participants in state teacher preparation programs was publicly available on the Internet for two…
AL: Unsecured documents found at Banks Middle School
Cory McGinnis reports, “The documents are the records of former Banks Middle School students, that include addresses, phone numbers, and even social security numbers.” How many years have the documents been unsecured and exposed this way? And will anyone be notifying those whose records were so exposed?