Nanette Asimov reports: Personal banking information and other data from perhaps tens of thousands of students, faculty and administrators at City College of San Francisco have been stolen in what is being called “an infestation” of computer viruses with origins in criminal networks in Russia, China and other countries, The Chronicle has learned. At work…
Category: Education Sector
CA: School Accidentally Throws Out Books and Student Information
Ugh. Dozens of federally-funded books and documents containing families’ personal information were thrown in a dumpster at a elementary school and have been cleared out by school officials. […] There were also boxes filled with personal documents, including applications for free and reduced price meals containing financial information. “Documents that should have been shredded but…
Ca: Computers with personal info stolen from Waterloo Region District School Board (Corrected)
I wasn’t even going to mention this breach on this blog. I originally intended to just add it to DataLossDB, but when I read it, I was somewhat put off by the school board’s actions and statements so I decided to comment on it here. Jeff Hicks reports: Nine computers stolen from the Waterloo Region…
VA: Spotsylvania school employees’ personal information was available online
There’s been an exposure breach involving Spotsylvania school employees’ personal information. Yesterday, Fredericksburg.com reported: The division began mailing letters to employees about the security breach this afternoon and expects to have all of them mailed by tomorrow morning, schools spokeswoman Rene Daniels said in response to my inquiry. An employee discovered the problem on Dec….
Singapore’s NUS confirms security breach
Liau Yun Qing reports: Hackers have infiltrated the National University of Singapore’s (NUS) backend systems and made away with a trove of information, including staff usernames, domain information and hashed passwords. University has confirmed the incident but noted that the affected data is not confidential. According to a report Thursday on tech Web site Secure…
UT: Provo School District system hacked
Someone gained access to the district’s e-mail database and used it to send out about 3,200 emails to parents and some students. The e-mail contained a link to a survey about satisfaction with the district, but the district didn’t authorize sending it and they have no idea as yet who misused the database to send…