Nice to see on data on this. Tim Wilson of Dark Reading writes: Some 63 percent of K-12 schools say they have experienced at least two security breaches in the past year, according to a new study, and their IT administrators are struggling to find the resources they need to keep up with security tasks….
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SSNs of All Laredo ISD Students Missing In Data Breach; Trustee says not “a big deal”
Morgan Smith reports: A disk holding the Social Security numbers of every student in the Laredo Independent School District — a total of 24,903 — has gone missing, according to the Texas Education Agency. TEA spokeswoman Suzanne Marchman said the agency first became aware of the situation in January, when officials with the University of…
Personal information found in dumpster
Note: this story refers to the City of Cleveland, Texas – not Ohio. Vanesa Brashier reports: The City of Cleveland will be reviewing how it handles documents that are shared with council members after 10 job applications were found in a public recycling dumpster in Cleveland. The citizen who found the documents turned them over…
Mailing error exposes over 3,000 cancer patients' names to each other
A mailing error resulted in Cancer Care Northwest sending routine mailings that exposed patient names to other patients. A statement on their web site explains: In compliance with federal HIPAA and HITECH Regulations, Cancer Care Northwest is required to notify patients and the media when a breach of information occurs. Cancer Care Northwest became aware…
Zeus computer virus nabs Social Security numbers from Virginia Tech computer
Tonia Moxley reports that a computer in Virginia Tech controller’s office was infected by a virus that sent Social Security numbers and some financial data on current and former employees overseas before it was detected: About 370 people were affected, and all have been notified by mail of the security breach. The university will pay…
UWindsor sends 650 tax slips to wrong people
The University of Windsor Finance Department mistakenly sent about 650 income tax slips to the wrong people, meaning personal information, including social insurance numbers, ended up in someone else’s mailbox. […] “I received two envelopes. Both were addressed to me so I opened them both,” said Kennedy. “One had all of my information in it,…