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Needham schools say system was breached
From: security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 06:20:09 +0000 (UTC)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org> http://www.boston.com/news/education/k_12/articles/2008/08/26/needham_schools_say_system_was_breached/ By Peter Schworm Globe Staff August 26, 2008 A junior at Needham High School posted students' schedules and identification numbers and teachers' classroom rosters on his Facebook account after hacking into an online student information system, school officials said yesterday. In an e-mail sent yesterday morning to high school parents, principal Paul Richards and the district's superintendent, Dan Gutekanst, said the student admitted he had obtained and posted the information after learning part of a teacher's password, then developing a program to penetrate the system. The student posted the information as an Excel file that was e-mailed among other students. "As you might imagine, this is a serious breach of our system and will require significant work to determine how to prevent this from happening again," stated the e-mail to parents. Students who accessed the information notified school officials about the breach, and Richards talked to the alleged hacker. The student did not alter any information, Richards said. School officials did not release the boy's name. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tenable Network Security offers data leakage and compliance monitoring solutions for large and small networks. Scan your network and monitor your traffic to find the data needing protection before it leaks out! http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/compliance.shtml
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