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Clay High School student hacks into Oregon schools data
From: "Dissent" <Dissent () pogowasright org>
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:19:14 -0500 (EST)
http://www.toledofreepress.com/?id=4718 Oregon City Schools Superintendent John Hall confirmed an information security breech occurred Jan. 12 when a Clay High School student obtained confidential student and staff information through inappropriate means. Hall has sent out letters notifying the local community about the incident. [...] The administration learned the student had transferred the information to portable 30-gigabyte storage device. That device has been confiscated. [...] [Detective Janet Zale] confirmed that Oregon police are now in possession of the student's portable storage device. From investigation work she has completed, she has ascertained the student's external device has district-wide personal information, such as names, addresses, birthdays and Social Security numbers of students, and information on Clay faculty and staff. [...] -- Privacy-related news and resources: http://www.pogowasright.org Privacy news headlines feed: http://www.pogowasright.org/backend/pogowasright.rss _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 145 million compromised records in 542 incidents over 7 years.
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