Macklin Reid reports: Police have arrested two students for breaching the security of Ridgefield High School’s computer system in June, with a goal of altering grades. The students were charged with theft of computer services in the third degree and first degree criminal mischief. Police described the students as 16-year-old males, but did not release…
Category: Education Sector
IA: Buena Vista University reveals data breach (update 1)
Buena Vista University has had a data breach on campus. We engaged a nationally-recognized computer forensics team to conduct an investigation and learned someone gained unauthorized access to a BVU database. The information that this person could have accessed includes names, Social Security numbers and some driver’s license numbers of BVU students (applicants, former and…
Oregon State U. notifies 34,000 of computer virus
Clearly Oregon State University does not pay enough attention to security bloggers who have derided such trite phrases as “in an abundance of caution.” Their press release from today: Oregon State University is notifying 34,000 current and former employees that a computer containing some of their personal information was recently infected by a virus, even…
(follow-up) Private info accidentally released
Fran Handy reports that after the Sparta School District in New Jersey erroneously sent out the unredacted version of a spread sheet containing vendors’ SSN and other information — instead of the redacted one that they had prepared in response to an open records request — the District has had some trouble getting the data…
UH computer breach may have compromised 53,000 people
More than 53,000 people, who did business with the University of Hawaii at Manoa parking office’s data base from 1998-2009, are being notified by mail that they may be affected by a computer security breach. The FBI and Honolulu Police Department are investigating the breach that was discovered on June 15 during a routine audit….
UF officials notify patients of privacy breach
University of Florida officials have notified 2,047 people that their Social Security or Medicaid identification numbers were included on address labels affixed to letters inviting them to participate in a research study. The letters were sent through the U.S. Postal Service on May 24, and the information also was shared with a telephone survey company….