Brian Prince reports: Reports surfaced this week that the University of Virginia fell victim to a cyber-attack that stole nearly $1 million. Unfortunately for administrators at colleges and universities, their institutions are just as vulnerable to data breach woes as enterprises. According to reports, attackers used malware to steal online banking credentials for accounts belonging…
Category: Education Sector
Faculty, staff ID threatened
Sarah Krimm reports: At 8:55 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 26 an e-mail containing the Social Security number, driver’s license number, and first and last name of 2,484 full and part-time ASU [Arkansas State University] employees was sent to 144 ASU e-mail addresses. This information breach has raised concern among affected faculty, as identity theft becomes…
Cyber Thieves Steal Nearly $1,000,000 from University of Virginia College
Brian Krebs reports: Cyber crooks stole just shy of $1 million from a satellite campus of The University of Virginia last week, KrebsOnSecurity.com has learned. The attackers stole the money from The University of Virginia’s College at Wise, a 4-year public liberal arts college located in the town of Wise in southwestern Virginia. […] According…
FL: Laptop theft results in data breach for P.K. Yonge employees, students
From the University of Florida: The personal information of more than 8,300 current and former students and employees of P.K. Yonge Development Research School was on a laptop computer stolen last month. P.K. Yonge is a kindergarten-through-grade-12 laboratory school affiliated with University of Florida’s College of Education. The computer files contained employee payroll, employee parking…
Scottish ministers told to “get a grip” on data security
Ben Borland of the Express reports on previously undisclosed breaches involving PII and/or PHI, but I note that BBC provides slightly different coverage. I’ve indicated the BBC’s statements in italics, below. More than 200 electronic items were stolen or lost in the first six months of the year, including PCs, laptops, phones and Blackberries. The…
NV: School District updates its records disposal procedure
Kudos to Tom Considine of “Who Complys” for increasing local awareness of the need for proper disposal of the student and employee records. Stephanie Carroll reports: The Churchill County School District announced Thursday the purchase of an industrial shredder to update their student record disposal procedures after accusations of illegal disposal. “I think our procedure…