Ron Zeitlinger reports: Four Jersey City high school students have been charged after authorities say they accessed the public school district’s computer system and changed grades for some students, The Jersey Journal has learned. According to a source in the school district, board of education members were notified by email Friday afternoon that four Dickinson…
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NH: Manchester school officials confirm data breach, saying student scores were sent to all Hallsville Elementary families
Kevin Landrigan reports: Manchester school administrators confirmed Friday that a data breach occurred when individual student scores on tests were inadvertently sent to all families of Hallsville Elementary School students. The individual score sheets were attached to an email sent out on the results of the latest iReady data on reading and math tests which…
42,000 SLCC students’ tax documents were lost when unencrypted drive fell out of mailed envelope
Someone asked me today about the lack of W-2 phishing reports or W-2 incidents that we’ve seen so far this year. I responded that I hadn’t really had time to research W-2 attacks yet, but a reader, “DLOW,” has now kindly submitted a news story by Mary Richards of KSL in Utah. The kinds of…
Changing numeric ID in url allowed students to view other Stanford students’ admission files, sensitive personal data
Julia Ingram and Hannah Knowles report: Before this week, Stanford students could view the Common Applications and high school transcripts of other students if they first requested to view their own admission documents under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). Accessible documents contained sensitive personal information including, for some students, Social Security numbers….
DataCamp notifies users of hack, forces password reset
On February 11, DataCamp discovered that it had been hacked. With thanks to “Russy” for sending this along, the following is DataCamp’s update on the situation, posted today by Robert Cabral: DataCamp Security Update – Frequently Asked Questions What happened? On Monday, February 11, 2019, we discovered that some user data was exposed by a…
Ca: Doctors snooped into Humboldt Broncos patient records, privacy commissioner finds
Collette Derworiz reports: Saskatchewan’s privacy commissioner has found several people inappropriately gained access to the electronic health records of the Humboldt Broncos team members involved in a deadly bus crash last April. Sixteen people were killed and 13 were injured in the crash between the junior hockey team’s bus and a semi trailer at a…