Paul Karlsgodt, David Carney, Casie Collignon, and Christopher Wiech of BakerHostetler write, in part: …. There remains a dearth of case law surrounding the appropriateness of class certification in litigation arising out of a data breach. The reasons for the lack of authority on the class certification issue include that most data breach cases are…
KY: Spencer County student writes code to hack into online learning program, boost grades
Deni Kamper reports: About a dozen Spencer County High School students have been disciplined after one student admitted to hacking into an online learning program. Principal Stephen Webb said about three weeks ago, an English teacher noticed irregularities in some students’ scores on the Reading Plus program. The program assesses reading proficiency and designs lessons…
Handshake security breach affects thousands of university students
Sarra Sundstrom reports: Handshake, the university’s job search platform, experienced a security incident last week that directly affected over 8,000 students and alumni. On Feb. 13, a number of students received a security alert from the university’s Career Center that an unknown party posing as a company on Handshake accessed student resumes. Resumes of 4,003…
Has IIT Madras been hit by ransomware that is holding all their research data hostage?
Parvathi Benu Students at IIT Madras, the top-ranked institution in the country by the NIRF, are petrified that they have lost all their data, after a suspected ransomware attack on the institute’s internet and Command and Control servers since Wednesday. Even though the institute says that it has a back-up for everything on the email…
MS: FBI investigating after Jackson Public Schools computer system hacked
Jacob Gallant reports: Jackson Public Schools is dealing with a network interaction after a recent cyber attack. School officials said in a statement that its information technology team, along with outside cyber-professionals, performed a full assessment of its computer system. They say student and employee information has not been compromised. Read more on WLBT. The…
Personal information of nearly 360,000 Quebec teachers exposed in data breach
Canadian Press reports: The personal information of nearly 360,000 teachers in Quebec may have been stolen in a data theft, the Quebec government confirmed on Friday. Quebec’s Treasury Board took stock in the wake of the ongoing investigation by the Sûreté du Québec (SQ) into identity theft of people working or having worked as teachers….