WEAU reports: A school district service agency says teachers’ passwords were hacked and Tuesday night it’s getting out the message to the people affected. CESA 10’s administrator tells WEAU its old web portal where teachers registered for classes was hacked, and it’s now using a new site that is not affected. CESA, which stands for…
Category: Education Sector
SC:Personal data from 12,000 York Tech applicants may have been exposed
Don Worthington reports: The names, Social Security numbers and driver’s license numbers of more than 12,000 online student applicants at York Technical College might have been exposed, school officials said Tuesday. And it was one of the applicants who discovered the problem and brought it to the college’s attention. […] York Tech President Greg Rutherford…
Follow-up: How did a hacker get into UGA system?
Joe Johnson reports some of the follow-up on University of Georgia hack disclosed last year: University of Georgia officials thought they may have been under attack from multiple hackers when the identities of thousands of employees and students went missing last fall. But it turned out to be the work of a single person, a…
‘Glitch’ publishes private info of more than 100 Oakland Community College students
Diana Dillaber Murray reports that a “computer glitch” is being blamed for students’ information being exposed on the Internet: Oakland Community College is investigating how personal information of more than 100 students in connection with student loans became available on the college website. The information has been removed from the website and OCC officials are…
Eight years of data breaches in higher education
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Justice Institute employee sues ICBC for privacy breach that allegedly led to her vehicle torched, bullets fired at home
I had described it as what might be the worst – or one of the worst – breaches of 2011. An unnamed employee of the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC) had allegedly accessed information on over 60 people and passed the information along to an unidentified man. At least 13 students associated with the college…