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Student data found exposed

Posted on April 19, 2010 by Dissent

A file containing sensitive student information was found by an Olympic College student unsecured on the OC intranet recently, but according to the Information Technology Department the problem has been fixed. Tom Jacobs, customer service manager for IT, said the file was secured “within minutes of finding the problem.” Jon Bowers, student body president, said…

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(update) 9-year-old didn’t hack Blackboard system

Posted on April 17, 2010 by Dissent

Although it made for an interesting story, it seems that the recent incident in Virginia, reported here, was not a hack.  The kid simply found and used a teacher’s password.   Robert McMillan has the corrected story here.

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Recovered: Stolen data on 3 million student loan borrowers

Posted on April 16, 2010 by Dissent

Paul Walsh reports: Stolen personal information on more than 3 million student loan borrowers was recovered in connection with the discovery in a Minneapolis alley of two safes containing CDs and floppy discs and sat in a police evidence room for weeks before authorities knew just what they had, state officials said Friday. […] The…

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95 new breaches in 2010 that didn’t make the news

Posted on April 16, 2010 by Dissent

The good folks over at the Identity Theft Resource Center recently posted a very gracious thank-you to me and this site for helping track data breaches. I suspect that they’ll be pulling their hair out this weekend, though. 🙂 In addition to the 100 previously unreported breaches from 2009 that I posted here today, here…

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100 more breaches you probably never knew about in 2009

Posted on April 16, 2010 by Dissent

As noted here and elsewhere, the number of breaches reported in the media and other sources  declined in 2009 relative to 2008, but newly obtained data suggests that once again, there was much that we did not know. During the period September 1 – December 31, 2009,   141 breach reports were received by the…

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NY’s Higher Education Services Corp had its own breach last year

Posted on April 16, 2010 by Dissent

In discussing the huge Educational Credit Management Corp data breach previously covered on this site, Rick Karlin of the Times Union mentions a second and unrelated breach, this one by New York’s Higher Education Services Corp: [The breach] happened back in December when 1,433 e-mails from HESC ran into a “process error” by which the…

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