Emma WestRasmus reports: “What was the name of your first pet? What’s your favorite color? What’s your mother’s maiden name?” We all know the drill. Whenever we start a new account we are prompted for answers to challenge questions that will surely be easy to remember. But for more than two dozen students at the…
Category: Education Sector
Ca: Calgary Board of Education hit by new privacy breach as laptop containing 2,000 report cards stolen
Richard Cuthbertson reports that the Calgary Board of Education has had a second breach this month. I had missed the first one, I think. This latest one happened October 5th after an employee left a laptop containing the report cards of more than 2,000 students in a car. The laptop was stolen. Kindergarten to Grade 9…
Update on Northwest Florida State College breach
I updated the original post for a while, but thought it worth mentioning that the number of fraud reports from NWFSC employees continues to grow. It’s now up to 86, up 26 from a week ago. I hope all employees have flagged or frozen their accounts.
IL: Plainfield Schools Job Application Website Hacked (updated)
Shannon Antinori reports: Anyone who applied online for a job in District 202 over the last few years got a nasty surprise on Saturday, after a hacker breached security on a website used by the district for employment applications. […] Hernandez said District 202 officials have been in touch with the company that owns the…
Hackers access University of Georgia personnel information
The University of Georgia has issued the following release today: An ongoing investigation into what officials call “a criminal act of computer trespass” reveals that the personnel records of at least 8,500 current and former University of Georgia employees apparently were accessed by an intruder, UGA Vice President for Information Technology Timothy M. Chester announced…
Almost 280,000 to be notified of hack at Northwest Florida State College; ID theft reported
Jim Turner reports: An information security breach has been reported involving employee and student records at Northwest Florida State College in Niceville. […] According to the state Department of Education, the breach included more than 3,000 employee records and approximately 76,000 Northwest College student records containing personal identification information; and approximately 200,000 records with information…