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…
Category: Education Sector
Boy, 9, accused of hacking into Fairfax schools’ computer system
Tom Jackman reports: Are you smarter than a third-grader? Because the online education system used by the Fairfax County public schools apparently is not. Police say a 9-year-old McLean boy hacked into the Blackboard Learning System used by the county school system to change teachers’ and staff members’ passwords, change or delete course content, and…
Confidential information about students left exposed in Education Ministry hallway
Or Kashti reports: Sensitive personal information about students, including psychological diagnoses and school evaluations, is being stored at an unsupervised location in a corridor of an Education Ministry building in Jerusalem. Any visitor who gets through the building’s initial security inspection, if he were so inclined, could look through the documents and even take them….
(follow-up) District Data Breach Leads to Prison Time
Dian Schaffhauser reports: A Washington State man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to 31 counts of criminal activity, most related to a school district data breach. Christopher Berge, now 21, was a student at Mountain View High School in Evergreen Public Schools when he “shoulder surfed”–physically observed–a password used…
NV: Washoe County School District notifies parents of stolen student info
A reader informed DataBreaches.net that on February 15, a burglary at a locked Washoe County School District building resulted in the theft of two flash drives containing limited personal information on a number of the district’s students. On March 11, the Department of Student Health Services notified parents and guardians about the theft of the…
Gateway Community College also reported breach
So while I was looking for information on the Three Rivers Community College report, I stumbled across another incident handled by csIDentity.com. The page is no longer available except in Google’s cache: During a recent security review of the computers at Gateway Community College, it was discovered that certain personal information associated with a number…