There is a bizarre story out of China were dozens of Chinese students have seen their future wiped out by the disappearance of their manila folders containing their records. In China, these paper folders follow a student throughout his or her career with every achievement, score, and prospect for a college education. While Chinese officials…
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Laptops stolen from Springfield (OH) schools
Ten laptop computers stolen from Keifer Alternative School June 30 contained information about students with disabilities, but not social security numbers, Springfield City Schools Interim Superintendent Don Thompson said. The district sent letters home to parents of students who were affected following the theft, said Thompson. The laptops belonged to employees of the district’s special…
FL DOE loses loan promissory notes
Bill Cotterell of the Tallahassee Democrat reports a breach involving the Florida Department of Education’s Office of Student Financial Assistance: The agency is notifying 475 student-loan borrowers that their financial records have been exposed to identity theft because the OSFA managed to lose 1,186 “promissory notes” that they signed when they were going to school,…
NYer sentenced for loan fraud, ID theft
Martin C. Carlson, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, announced earlier this week that Patricia Harrington, age 45, formerly of Liverpool, New York, was sentenced by Senior United States District Judge William W. Caldwell to one year, and one day, in federal prison, along with 3 years of supervised release, and was…
Ohio Supreme Court Protects The Privacy Of Medical Records In Abortion Case
From the ACLU: The Ohio Supreme Court today moved to protect the privacy of minors’ medical records when the minor is not a party in a lawsuit. The case involves a lawsuit against an Ohio Planned Parenthood and attempts by a teenager’s parents to obtain the medical records not only of their own daughter…
Audit of US DOE on Incidents
Parts of the report were redacted, indicated by x’s below. Executive Summary: The Office of Inspector General (OIG) performed a review of the Department of Education’s (Department) external web sites. This audit was conducted in accordance with the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) as enacted by Title III of the E-Government Act of 2002,…