Iain Thomson reports: Three high school juniors have been arrested after they devised a sophisticated hacking scheme to up their grades and make money selling quiz answers to their classmates. The students are accused of breaking into the janitor’s office of California’s Palos Verdes High School and making a copy of the master key, giving…
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IL: Report cards mistakenly delivered to emergency contacts
Melissa Jenco reports: Naperville Unit District 203 may not get very high marks in the subject of report card distribution this semester. The district recently learned copies of some high school students’ report cards were accidentally sent to the person listed as their emergency contact. Chief Information Officer Roger Brunelle said a vendor made an…
CORRECTED and DELETED: NC: Documents Containing Personal Info Found In Dumpster
CORRECTION: The incident reported in this entry was from 2009. Don’t know how it showed up as news in my newsreader, but my apologies for reporting it again as a new incident and am deleting it.
IN: IU Information Security responds to hacking of President’s Challenge website
Kirsten Clark reports: Last semester the President’s Challenge website tracked IU [Indiana University] employees’ nutrition and exercise progress throughout their participation in the Healthy IU fitness competition. On Jan. 19, those same IU employees received an email from President’s Challenge officials delivering some alarming news. “We are writing to inform you about a security issue…
CA: Sequoia Hospital vendor posted hospital employees’ personal information online
Aaron Kinney reports: A contractor working for Sequoia Hospital inadvertently posted the personal information of 391 current and former hospital employees on a public website, where it stayed for four years, the hospital said Thursday. An employee for Towers Watson, an international professional services firm, posted the information in October 2007, hospital CEO Glenna Vaskelis…
FL: Customer credit cards compromised at restaurant
Stephanie Kolp reports: At least eight people say they’re the victim of credit card fraud. And the one thing they all have in common is that they all ate at the same restaurant in December. Anthony Valerio was one of those victims. “I realized there was a $77 charge to my account and I didn’t…