The University of York’s student publication, Nouse, blows the whistle on a breach at the university involving exposure of student information: On a student enquiry screening function enabled on the website, and open to the general public, the private details of any registered student were made freely accessible. This included all their personal details such…
Category: Education Sector
(Update) Birthdates, social security numbers of 45 Eastern Michigan University students stolen
David Jesse has some more details on an Eastern Michigan University breach reported previously on this blog: Forty-five Eastern Michigan University students had their names, dates of birth and Social Security numbers provided to a third party by two student employees, the school said. EMU spokesman Walter Kraft would not say Thursday whether the employees…
Students’ info lifted, provided to third party
Katrease Stafford reports: Eastern Michigan University is investigating two former student employees who are believed to have taken personal identifiable information of approximately 45 students and improperly provided it to a third party. The data was taken from student records the former student employees had access to during the course of their employment. The University…
Access privileges error on Chapman University file allowed viewing of file with sensitive student information
On February 15, officials at Chapman University were informed that a document that should have been secured was available to authorized logged in system users who were not authorized to see that document . The university immediately secured the document by correcting the access privileges, and on February 22, notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s…
SC: Midlands Tech warns employees of security breach
Wayne Washington reports: Midlands Technical College warned employees last month that a flash drive containing some of their personal information was taken from a human resources office at the college. The flash drive, since returned — without the personal data it previously held — could compromise the personal information of some of the college’s 500…
Hard drive containing personal information of some Western Michigan University students and faculty missing
Gabrielle Russon reports: A backup hard drive containing names and social security numbers of several hundred current and former students and faculty members is missing, Western Michigan University spokeswoman Cheryl Roland said Tuesday. The hard drive, which contained a WMU department’s academic records, was first noticed missing from an office desk on Jan. 25. Roland…