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KY: Bullitt school employees’ Social Security numbers mistakenly released

Posted on October 21, 2009 by Dissent

Sara Cunningham reports: A Bullitt County Public Schools employee accidentally sent an e-mail message to about 1,800 school district workers Tuesday that included the names and Social Security numbers of 676 district employees. […] The employee did not mean to include Social Security numbers, Davis said. The original message was sent at 7:47 a.m. Tuesday….

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Student data stolen from National Institute of Educational Testing Service

Posted on October 16, 2009 by Dissent

Earlier this month, The Nation reported that Thailand’s National Institute of Educational Testing Service (“NIETS”) web site had been downed by denial of service attacks and had been offline between Wednesday through Friday. The Nation subsequently reported that NIETS learned that information about some 1,000 students were stolen by hackers in the attack. Deputy Education…

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CSULA Students Exposed in Security Breach

Posted on October 16, 2009 by Dissent

KTLA reports: The names and social security numbers of 82 students at Cal State Los Angeles were mistakenly posted on the web, according to university officials. The students involved took computer courses, either CIS 454 or 528 in spring 2002 and CIS 283 or 585 in spring 2003, officials said. The information was mistakenly posted…

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Personal data for thousands of former adult students go missing

Posted on October 14, 2009 by Dissent

Kipp Hanley reports: Nearly 80,000 former adult education students’ personal information stored on a flash drive was lost in Richmond on Sept. 21 according to a Virginia Department of Education press release issued Wednesday. The information went missing after being given to a representative of Virginia Tech’s Center for Assessment, Evaluation and Educational Programming for…

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NY: E-mail error sends out students’ Social Security numbers

Posted on October 5, 2009 by Dissent

Rick Brand reports: Suffolk Community College has agreed to pay a company for the next year to monitor the credit of 300 students whose last names and Social Security numbers were mistakenly listed in an attachment to an e-mail sent to those students last month. Mary Lou Araneo, college vice president, said Sunday there is…

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Oops! Mizzou sells phones without wiping memory

Posted on October 1, 2009 by Dissent

Jim Salter reports: Mike Bellman got more than he bargained for when he purchased a box of old cell phones from the University of Missouri athletics department. Bellman bought the cell phones earlier this year at a university surplus sale with the intent of reselling them for parts. He paid $190 for 25 old cell…

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