Benjamin Wanger and Pierce T. Cox of BakerHostetler write: On February 9, 2023, the Department of Education Office of Federal Student Aid (“FSA”) issued an electronic notice regarding the Federal Trade Commission’s Final Rule amending the Standards for Safeguarding Customer Information (“Safeguards Rule”) under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (“GLBA”). The amendments to the Safeguards Rule, which go into…
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UK: The Downs School, hit by possible cyber attack, seeking help from West Berkshire Council, the Department for Education and cyber security experts
Niki Hinman reports: Pupils at a Compton school have been without access to the internet for nearly a week – because of a possible cyber attack. Downs School wrote to parents explaining that IT systems had been compromised. […] He said the IT department has been working closely with the Department For Education, West Berkshire…
Illuminate Education Beats Lawsuit Over Breach of Student Data
Christopher Brown reports: Illuminate Education Inc. defeated a proposed class action alleging it negligently failed to protect the information of more than 3 million elementary and high school students that was exposed in a late-December 2021 data breach. The plaintiffs failed to show that they had suffered concrete harm from the breach or were at…
Department of Education to Enforce Revised Cybersecurity Requirements and Expands Interpretation of “Third-Party Servicer” Definition
Duane Morris writes: The Department of Education has issued an electronic notice relating to the updated cybersecurity regulations published by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). On December 9, 2021, the FTC amended the Safeguards Rule under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA). This comprehensive amendment updated data security requirements for financial institutions, including all Title IV institutions of higher…
India’s Public Education App Exposed Millions of Students’ Data
Vittoria Elliott and Dhruv Mehrotra report: A security lapse in an app operated by India’s Education Ministry exposed the personally identifying information of millions of students and teachers for over a year. The data was stored by the Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge Sharing app, or Diksha, a public education app launched in 2017. […] Files…
Cyberattacks: higher education on high alert despite the holidays
The following is a machine translation of a report by Valéry Rieß-Marchive: cIn mid-September, Toulouse INP started the school year on a cyberattack with ransomware . At the beginning of December, Grenoble INP informed of an “intrusion” on its computer servers, but not to mention a cyberattack . At the same time, our colleagues from Parisian revealed that the IUT Paris – Rives de Seine was openly…