Canyons School District officials are investigating the disappearance of a thumb drive that may have contained the personal information of more than 6,000 current and recent employees. The flash drive is believed to have contained employee addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth and Social Security numbers. A district-level worker was using it to transfer data…
Category: Education Sector
FL DOE loses loan promissory notes
Bill Cotterell of the Tallahassee Democrat reports a breach involving the Florida Department of Education’s Office of Student Financial Assistance: The agency is notifying 475 student-loan borrowers that their financial records have been exposed to identity theft because the OSFA managed to lose 1,186 “promissory notes” that they signed when they were going to school,…
Possible Haverhill HS security breach
Did he or didn’t he? Did she or didn’t he? And were they or weren’t they? School administrators in Haverhill, Massachusetts are looking into a police report based on school personnel allegations that a secretary who was allegedly having an affair with a student gave that student access to computer files he should not have…
Redford USD Mail Error Exposes SSNs
Employees in the Redford Union School District noticed a problem Tuesday with a mailing they received telling them about a new dental coverage plan. The envelopes that contained the information had the employees’ social security numbers listed on the address labels, where the zip codes should have been…. The district said the dental coverage carrier,…
UCM notifying 7000 of Breach
The University of Central Missouri is notifying 7,000 students who were enrolled for the summer of 2005 and the summer of 2006 that two computer reports containing their names, Social Security numbers, and dates of birth were in two paper reports that were stolen. Source: KMBC
Commission for Teacher Preparation Computer Stolen
From Tulsa World: The Commission for Teacher Preparation is notifying individuals that one of its computer servers containing client Social Security numbers had been stolen but was recovered. The server contained the names of teacher candidates who tested for licensure and certification from 1999 through 2007, said Ted Gillispie, commission executive director. The server had…