Jenna Cho reports: Three Rivers Community College may have suffered a security breach due to unauthorized access to its computer network, according to information on its Web site Tuesday. A notice on the college’s site says: Dear Sir or Madam, During a recent review of computers at Three Rivers Community College, a potential breach in…
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Student Hacks Into Valencia High System
Ah, it’s Spring, and young students’ thoughts turn to hacking…. Jeremiah McDaniel reports on yet another case, this one in California: A Valencia High School student faces criminal charges for hacking into the school’s network. The student hacked into the system and made changes to information according Paul Preisz, the school’s Principal. “The student had…
(Follow-up) Officials: Ex-Student Broke Into District Data
As a follow-up to a breach originally covered here in November, KPTV now reports: A former student was behind a data security breach that compromised the personal information of more than 5,000 current and former Vancouver School District workers, officials said Thursday. Christopher Berge, who attended Evergreen Public Schools, pleaded guilty to 30 different counts…
John Hopkins University School of Education enrollment data exposed on web
A file containing student enrollment data from the Johns Hopkins University School of Education was inadvertently left accessible online, according to a letter sent by ID Experts on March 18 to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office. The file was hosted on the SoE server and contained data on students enrolled between 2003-2007. It was…
Haddonfield students arrested in computer hacking
Another hack-to-change-grades scheme? Several Haddonfield Memorial High School students are under police investigation on accusations they hacked into the school’s computer system. The breach was discovered in the last few days, and the students, whom school district officials declined to identify, have been turned over to local police and the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office. At…
U of C warns 5,000 patients of potential information breach
The University of Calgary is advising patients of its Sunridge Medical Clinic that their personal health information may have been compromised after several computer viruses infected one of the clinic’s computers. The University said Wednesday in a press release it sent letters to approximately 5,000 patients on March 15. The infected computer was used to…