Kasey Bubnash reports: Administrators and tech staff at Lucia Mar Unified School District are cleaning up after confidential employee information was accidentally shared in an email that was sent out to some district staff. At about 1:43 p.m. on Oct. 9, an email regarding open enrollment insurance—and including a file containing sensitive employee information—was sent...
The NYS Comptroller’s Office released a number of IT audit reports for k-12 public school districts this month. Their findings will come as no surprise to regular readers of this site. Belleville-Henderson Central School District: You can read the complete report here (pdf), although the state omitted sensitive details from the public report that...
WTOW reports: South Knox School Corporation has restored all servers after being hit by a ransomware virus late Friday afternoon. According to SKSC Superintendent Tim Grove, approximately 50 out of over 400 computers were infected by the virus. Read more on WIBQ.
Update:Â It was a Maryland student who did it. Brad Shear forwarded a notice he received yesterday concerning a breach impacting students of the Montgomery County Public School District. The cover email, from Luana Zimmerman of college career service Naviance began: Due to a recent data security incident in Naviance that affected one of...
MS: Tech audit suggests SCCSD vulnerable to hacking