The following is cross-posted from PogoWasRight.org: For Data Privacy Day 2013 on January 28, I’ve tried to compile a list of questions parents should ask their child’s school district about how their child’s personal information is protected. Send your letter to your district’s Superintendent with a cc: to your district’s Board of Education: Dear ________:…
Category: Education Sector
Cheyney University notifies students after e-mail attachment gaffe
The Associated Press reports that 2,100 current and former students at Cheyney University of Pennsylvania have been sent letters after an administrative e-mail sent to all students yesterday erroneously contained an attached file with their names, addresses, and Social Security numbers.
E-number spreadsheet with Eastern Illinois University student data leaked
Chacour Koop reports: The grade point averages of 430 students were released to 65 students about two and a half weeks ago, which is a violation of the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). Robert Miller, Eastern’s general counsel, has refused to comment on the violations. Sue Harvey, Eastern’s registrar and FERPA officer, has…
HK: School websites compromised data privacy
Here’s something you likely won’t see here in the U.S. – partly because we don’t have a Privacy Commissioner and partly because the U.S. Department of Education remains disturbingly placid about all the breaches in the education sector – the government of Hong Kong issued the following statement: The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for…
No one’s to blame? I beg to disagree.
Another data theft in the education sector. And yet again, no one did anything wrong because there was never any policy. Yesterday I added a breach to DataLossDB involving the Morgan Road Middle School in Georgia. A flash drive with unencrypted student information, including SSNs, was stolen from an teacher’s unattended car. A gradebook was…
University of North Carolina servers hacked; 3,500 employees’ data accessed
It seems that the University of North Carolina has had yet another data breach. And although the breach was discovered in May, it took about 7 months for those affected to be notified. Jane Stancill reports: Some 3,500 people had their personal information exposed when hackers hit two servers of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer…