Tanya Eiserer and Jason Trahan report: The email arrived just after midnight on a Sunday last August. Addressed to Dallas Independent School District trustees and other top officials, the anonymous authors said the district had been the victim of a massive cyberbreach. They claimed to have access and downloaded huge amounts of student grade information,…
Category: Education Sector
Another day, another data breach: Thai students’ data hacked, sold on dark web
Maya Taylor reports: The personal information of over 23,000 students has been stolen as a result of the Thai University Central Admission System being hacked. According to a Bangkok Post report, the security breach has been confirmed by the Council of University Presidents of Thailand. It’s understood the data, which pertains to over 23,000 students…
NY State Comptroller DiNapoli Releases School District Audits
Arkport Central School District – Network Access Controls (2021M-162) January 28, 2022 Quick Facts about the District: Enabled Network User Accounts Student 489 Non-Student 259 Total 748 IT Vendor Contract Services 2021 Expenditures $602,824 Audit Period July 1, 2020 – September 21, 2021 Audit Objective Determine whether Arkport Central School District (District) officials ensured network…
Update: Pellissippi State notifies individuals of data breach
NOTE: This incident was reported to the Maine State Attorney General’s Office as affecting 206,000 individuals. Nice follow-up by Pellissippi State Community College in Tennessee to their initial breach disclosure in December. From their website yesterday: Pellissippi State Community College is sending out notifications today regarding a December 2021 data security incident. That incident may…
New York State Comptroller DiNapoli Releases School District Audits
The state comptroller has released two more school district audits of information technology. Putnam Valley Central School District – Information Technology (2021M-154) Audit Period July 1, 2019 – May 31, 2021. We extended the audit period forward through July 28, 2021 to complete IT testing. Quick District Facts Local User Accounts 2,626 Employees 502 Student…
UK: Data breach at Greensward Academy
Lewis Berrill reports: SENSITIVE information about pupils was leaked to parents and students following a data breach at a secondary school. Information such as free school meal status, address, deprivation status, exam dispensation and special educational needs of Year 11 children at Greeensward Academy in Hockley was accidentally leaked by a teacher. The information was…