The president of the University of Victoria says nobody will lose their job after administrative staff failed to properly secure and store all employees’ sensitive information prior to it being stolen during a January break-in. Nearly 12,000 employees past and present at UVic had their names, social insurance numbers and banking details taken when an…
Category: Education Sector
Baylor Law Screw-Up Reveals Personal Data of Entire Admitted Class: Data That We’ve Got
Elie Mystal writes: There are data breaches, and then there are data dummies. The people at Baylor Law seem to be in the latter category. Nobody was trying to steal the personal information of the admitted students at Baylor Law. But a screw-up by someone at the school resulted in all of the personal information of the admitted…
TX: Lake Worth school district alerts workers of potential computer breach
Mitch Mitchell reports: Employees of the Lake Worth school district were notified Thursday of a potential computer security breach, Superintendent Janice Cooper said. In a statement e-mailed to the Star-Telegram, Cooper said the district has no indication that a breach occurred, but has notified law enforcement officials and is investigating. The concern has to do…
Follow-up: Anger follows University of Tampa data breach
Rob Shaw reports that some people are angry at U. Tampa’s decision not to offer free credit monitoring services to some of those whose data were available on the web for months: In addition, the records of another 22,722 faculty, students and staff — from the years 2000 through 2011 — also were potentially accessible,…
UK: 8,000 students caught up in email security breach
Graeme Paton reports: The details of more than 8,000 students were sent out by Student Finance England as part of a mass email distribution following a blunder by staff. Last night, the agency apologised for the error which they put down an administrative error. It has since contacted all students involved to assure them that…
Ca: Private info of 4,600 B.C. students leaked
Darcy Wintonyk reports: The leak of private information for thousands of accounting students was the result of an “unfortunate error,” according to the Certified General Accountants Association of B.C. An email sent to 2,300 CGA students on Tuesday accidentally contained an Excel spreadsheet containing personal data of about 4,600 of its students. The spreadsheet included…