A new feature for student borrowers on the Education Department’s National Student Loan Data System might have revealed personal data about borrowers, mimicking another data breach a year ago. The system, a clearinghouse for borrowers and institutions to get information about student loans, recently added a way for borrowers to download all of their data…
Category: Education Sector
Stolen Monterey Institute of International Studies laptop contained students’ SSNs
Monterey Institute of International Studies, a graduate school at Middlebury College in California, has been notifying students whose unencrypted names and Social Security numbers were on a laptop stolen during a burglary at an employee’s home. The letter, dated October 3, offers no explanation as to why the data weren’t encrypted, but offers those affected…
Ca: Student hacks into school board database
Roger Belgrave reports: The Catholic school board has beefed-up its computer network security after one of its high school students hacked into the system last spring. Under direction from Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner, the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board has posted details of the computer security breach on its website at www.dpcdsb.org. Read more…
Ca: Criminals hack into high school computer system to access FBI, CIA
Hackers have been using a Bay Area school district’s computer system to try hack into top secret government agencies. Like all school districts, the San Mateo Union High School District is heavily computerized with general public access and password only access to many of its files, but the district discovered a security breach after receiving…
ProjectWestWind: TeamGhostShell hacks and dumps 120,000 records from 100 U.S. and non-U.S. universities (updated)
Over on Softpedia, Eduard Kovacs alerts us all to a paste from a group of hackers who call themselves TeamGhostShell. In a paste today on Pastebin, they introduce “ProjectWestWind,” exposing the hacks and vulnerabilities in universities around the world. I’m deleting their rationale and links to data dumps, but here’s a bit of their…
U. of C. mistake reveals employee Social Security numbers
Jodi S. Cohen reports: The Social Security numbers of about 9,100 University of Chicago employees were printed on the outside of a postcard mailed earlier this week to faculty and staff, the university disclosed today. Read more on Chicago Tribune. Doesn’t anyone actually look at address labels for a mailing before it goes out? Sheesh….