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Florida Virtual School needs new board, new ethics standards, state education department says

Posted on November 2, 2019 by Dissent

Beth Kassab and Leslie Postal report: The troubled Florida Virtual School should get a new governor-appointed board, new ethics standards for employees and a new inspector general inside the school to oversee internal audits and investigations, according to a report released Friday by the Florida Department of Education. And some of the criticism relates to…

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The Guidance Center notifies 1,235 patients after discovering insider wrongdoing

Posted on November 1, 2019 by Dissent

What havoc and costs a rogue insider/employee can cause. Here’s another example — this one from a new disclosure by external counsel for The Guidance Center in Long Beach, California. The Guidance Center (TGC) provides comprehensive mental health treatment to disadvantaged youth and their families. In their lawyer’s words: In late March of 2019, TGC…

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More victims of yet another Click2Gov breach this week

Posted on November 1, 2019 by Dissent

Yet another report of a data breach involving Click2Gov software by Central Square Technology. Previous coverage of the publicly disclosed breaches from 2017, 2018, and 2019 are linked from here. Also see research reports by FireEye, Gemini Advisory, and RBS for additional background. The latest victim to come forward — at least the most recent…

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Update: One or more Paterson students were allegedly responsible for district data breach

Posted on November 1, 2019 by Dissent

Jayed Rahman provides an update to a breach previously covered on DataBreaches.net: One or more students were allegedly responsible for the massive data breach that struck the district late last year, according to sources briefed on a preliminary investigation conducted by a firm contracted by the district. Superintendent Eileen Shafer’s administration won’t make the findings…

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Louisiana releases details of summer school system hacking

Posted on November 1, 2019 by Dissent

KATC reports that the Governor’s office has released a follow-up on a ransomware attack that hit five school districts in July. The Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness (GOHSEP) today released details about this summer’s cyber attack on Louisiana school systems. As we reported this summer , several school systems were offline after a…

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20,000 Utah Valley Eye Center patients may have had information hacked after HIPAA breach

Posted on October 31, 2019 by Dissent

Braley Dodson reports: Demographic information for more than 20,000 patients could have been accessed after Utah Valley Eye Center was hacked last year, according to the center. The Provo business’s portal was hacked on June 18, 2018, and an email was sent to 5,764 patients disguised as a notification from PayPal telling the patients they…

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