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Ca: Maple Ridge – Pitt Meadows School District suffers massive data breach

Posted on January 23, 2023 by Dissent

Brandon Tucker reports: Nearly 20,000 personal records have been leaked online after Maple Ridge – Pitt Meadows School District 42 suffered a data breach on Tuesday afternoon. Harry Dhillon, superintendent of schools, announced that information containing first and last names, school/department, district emails, and student grades were accessed for 19,126 records, which they assume affects…

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India’s Public Education App Exposed Millions of Students’ Data

Posted on January 23, 2023 by Dissent

Vittoria Elliott and Dhruv Mehrotra report: A security lapse in an app operated by India’s Education Ministry exposed the personally identifying information of millions of students and teachers for over a year. The data was stored by the Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge Sharing app, or Diksha, a public education app launched in 2017. […] Files…

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NHS Is The Most Phished UK Government Organization

Posted on January 22, 2023 by Dissent

Cyber Security Intelligence reports: Cyber security experts have recently revealed the top six government impersonation scams they have removed from the Internet in 2022 as they urged the public to remain vigilant to cyber crime in 2023. The scams unveiled by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), part of GCHQ, included phishing emails and messages from cyber criminals…

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Private health data breach in Isle of Man to be dealt within 3 months, officials say

Posted on January 22, 2023 by Dissent

Seen on diabetes.co.uk: An organisation set up to focus on the delivery of health and social care on the Isle of Man has been given a three-month deadline to stop data breaches. Manx Care will be ordered to pay £170,000 if they fail to prevent breaches of people’s private data within the next three months….

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More than 19,000 records released in B.C. school district data breach

Posted on January 20, 2023 by Dissent

Stefan Labbé reports: A school district in B.C. said more than 19,000 personal records from students and staff were accessed in a privacy breach. In a statement Wednesday, School District 42 — which encompasses Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows — said 19,126 records were publicly released in the afternoon of Jan. 17, 2023. The records…

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UK: Students ‘outed without even knowing’ after SU self-id data ‘breach’

Posted on January 20, 2023 by Dissent

Caredig ap Tomos reports: Sensitive data relating to students’ self-identification continued to be shared with students running elections on Cambridge Students’ Union’s voting platform months after the issue was originally raised. Sources have told Varsity that countless students were “effectively outed without even knowing it” because of the ‘breach’ of sensitive data, which took nine months to…

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