Chris Pleasance reports: Thousands of photographs, spreadsheets and classified documents hacked from Chinese police servers have shed a horrifying new light on the terrors Uyghur Muslims have been subjected to in ‘re-education camps’ and prisons in Xinjiang, as part of a state-sponsored campaign aimed at ‘breaking’ their cultural identity. The treasure trove of data lays…
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NYC Education Dept. will roll out its own online gradebook after security breach and data hack
Michael Elsen-Rooney reports: The New York City Education Department is planning to roll out its own online grading and attendance system to replace a widely-used platform that was hacked earlier this year, exposing the personal information of nearly one million students. The new system, developed by the agency’s IT team, will launch in beta form…
UK: Central Bedfordshire Council leaked special educational needs students’ personal details
It’s a council two-fer today it seems when it comes to breaches of students’ information. First we had the Cornwall Council item. Now we learn about how Central Bedfordshire Council leaked the details of ‘dozens and dozens’ of special educational need (SEND) pupils. The council leaked the details when responding to a Freedom of Information (FOI)…
Illuminate Education Breach Notice
New York State Education Department has addressed the Illuminate data breach in a notice on the state’s site that advises school districts that they must make their best effort to contact all students, including former students for whom they have addresses. They are also advising districts to keep records of who they notified and who…
Illuminate Education breach that affected NYC schools spreads to other districts
Benjamin Freed reports: A school district in Coventry, Connecticut, notified families of its students this week that students’ data may have been swept up in a breach of one of its vendors earlier this year. The breach-notification letter, dated Tuesday, stated that data belonging to the roughly 1,700 students enrolled in Coventry Public Schools may have…
Data of 820,000 NYC students compromised in hack of online grading system: Education Dept.
Michael Elsen-Rooney reports: Personal data for roughly 820,000 current and former New York City public school students was compromised in the hack of a widely-used online grading and attendance system earlier this year, city Education Department officials said Friday, revealing what could be the largest-ever breach of K-12 student data in the U.S. Furious city…