Kelly Fiveash reports from the U.K.: The Department for Education broke the Data Protection Act after it exposed the email addresses, unencrypted passwords and sensitive answers of members of the public who filled in an online form about parental controls on the net, The Register can reveal. However – despite the breach – the Information Commissioner’s Office…
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Ca: Calgary Board of Education hit by new privacy breach as laptop containing 2,000 report cards stolen
Richard Cuthbertson reports that the Calgary Board of Education has had a second breach this month. I had missed the first one, I think. This latest one happened October 5th after an employee left a laptop containing the report cards of more than 2,000 students in a car. The laptop was stolen. Kindergarten to Grade 9…
Reports of Another Education Department Data Breach
A new feature for student borrowers on the Education Department’s National Student Loan Data System might have revealed personal data about borrowers, mimicking another data breach a year ago. The system, a clearinghouse for borrowers and institutions to get information about student loans, recently added a way for borrowers to download all of their data…
Calgary Board of Education admits flub after publishing private info about trustees
Jeremy Nolais reports: Calgary Board of Education officials have removed expense documents from the organization’s website after realizing some of the published material contained private information. Partial credit card numbers and expiry dates, personal home and cell phone numbers as well as information concerning the place of work of at least one trustee’s husband was…
100+ Education hacked, thousands of accounts leaked by @TeamGhostShell
Early today @TeamGhostShell announced a big leak that was aimed towards education based websites all around the world. the as normal comes in a many different parts which have been mirrored at least 3 times for each leak. This is not the first time we have seen big leaks by this crew with one coming…
South Australian Department of education hacked & data leaked by @s3rverexe
@s3rverexe has been at it again, hacking another Australian government website. This time its the south Australian department of educations online learning suite website. the hack has result in leaked accounts and personal information from users of the suite. Now while the attack doesn’t really expose critical data, it does show that our Australian schooling systems are lacking security and something really needs to be done…