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UK: Stolen backup drive results in undertaking for Phoenix Nursery School

Posted on November 16, 2011 by Dissent

Phoenix Nursery School in Wolverhampton ran afoul of the Data Protection Act when an unencrypted backup tape containing names and addresses of 70 pupils and their parents or guardians was stolen, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The tape also contained a small amount of information relating to the health of several pupils. According…

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Update to UCLA Dept. of Psychology breach

Posted on November 15, 2011 by Dissent

On Saturday, I had noted a breach involving the UCLA Department of Psychology and had tried to alert the department to the breach. They never responded to my notification. Today, the student paper reports the breach. Their report  suggests that the university may already have been aware of it before I tried to notify them….

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Santa Clara University: Hacker changed grades of 60 students

Posted on November 14, 2011 by Dissent

Sean Webby and Lisa Fernandez report: Santa Clara University’s academic records database was recently hacked to improve the grades of more than 60 former and current undergraduate students, the university announced Monday. The university called in the FBI, which is assisting in the ongoing investigation, according to university officials. No arrests have been reported. “We…

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Large-scale data theft fazes Finnish cops

Posted on November 14, 2011 by Dissent

From AFP: Finnish police on Monday called on users of online services to change their passwords after nearly 15 000 user names and passwords were stolen and published on the internet. “If I could get one message across to people, it would be to change your passwords, especially the important ones,” Timo Piiroinen of the…

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Brownsville Independent School District employees notified that their SSN and salary were exposed on the Internet

Posted on November 13, 2011 by Dissent

The following notice was posted on Brownsville (Texas) Independent School District web site: On Monday, November 7, 2011, Brownsville ISD was advised that the Social Security numbers of employees who are enrolled for disability insurance were inadvertently posted by prior department administration in April 2011 on the Employee Benefits/Risk Management (EB/RM) website; a site accessible…

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Czech Education Minister to fire bureaucrat responsible for Romani data leak

Posted on November 13, 2011 by Dissent

As an update to a post involving a  web leak of Romani student data on the Czechoslovakian Ministry of Education site, Romea.cz has an update: The Czech Interior Ministry has learned which bureaucrat published a list of Romani pupils including sensitive data about them to the ministry website. Czech Education Minister Josef Dobeš (Public Affairs…

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