Gretchen Phillips reports: The St. Mary’s County Board of Education is hiring independent counsel to investigate an alleged leak of confidential personnel information involving a school system employee. The investigation comes at a cost of $300 an hour. Sal Raspa, school board chair, explained Thursday that after board members discussed investigating the disclosure of information…
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Ca: Rouge Valley privacy breach bigger than originally thought (updated)
A breach at Rouge Valley Centenary that involved the contact information of 8,300 new mothers possibly being sold by two employees to multiple Registered Education Savings Plan (RESP) companies may also have affected new mothers at Rouge Valley Health System’s (RVHS) Ajax and Pickering site as well. It is not clear, however, whether the same two employees were responsible. CP24 has the update….
Ca: Privacy breach at northeast Calgary school prompts investigation (updated)
Tamara Elliott reports: An investigation has been ordered, following a major privacy breach at a Calgary school. Parent Jaret Kneller said he was shocked when he opened an e-mail sent by the new principal at George P. Vanier School in the northeast community of Winston Heights-Mountview. Instead of the introductory letter that was supposed to…
Criminal defense firm joins the ranks of those who have backup drives stolen from cars (updated)
Nothing good can come from a breach notification letter that begins: During the early morning hours on June 27, 2014, a hard drive containing backup files for one of the firm’s servers was stolen from the locked trunk of an employee’s vehicle. Not surprisingly, there’s even more bad news. Vincent M. Imhoff, Managing Director of Los…
Oops. Data leak not fixed as Topeka school leaders thought
Last week, I posted a privacy breach involving student data in Topeka Unified School District 501 over on PogoWasRight. It seems I missed an update, but happily, @VERISDB caught it and tweeted a link. Celia Llopis-Jepsen reports: Confidential student data continued to be available this week to unauthorized people at Topeka Unified School District 501,…
Comptroller DiNapoli: Schools Must Do More to Limit Access to Sensitive Student Databases
Yes, it’s as bad as I’ve been saying for years. Now if they will just audit the NYC Department of Education, too. Employees in six upstate New York school districts had inappropriate computer access to sensitive student data and were able to change student grades and attendance records without proper authorization, according to an audit released today…