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Hacker Steals Ten Years Worth of Data From San Diego School District (zdnet.com)
A hacker has stolen the personal details of over 500,000 San Diego Unified School District staff and students, the district revealed in a breach notice posted on its website Friday. From a report: The breach occurred because the attacker gained access to staff credentials via a tactic known as phishing -- sending authentic-looking emails that redirect users to fake login pages were attackers collect login credentials. The attack didn't go unnoticed. Some staff reported the funny-looking emails to IT staff, who investigated and eventually discovered the breach in October this year. District officials said the hacker had access to its network between January 2018 and November 1, 2018, but that he stole student and staff data going back to the 2008-2009 school year.
I am trying to figure what is so valuable of 10 years of school district data? Perhaps some bank information to pay teachers with direct deposit.
What are you planning to do, blackmail students to show they were put into detention 10 years ago, for fighting or talking up to a teacher. Or the fact that you had failed English back in 2001. Most of the data in a school is public information anyways.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Maybe you could read all the way to the second sentence of the summary to see how they did it - it had nothing to do with network equipment.
I home schooled my kids... Their school records are not at risk from some underpaid government employee's mistakes.
Not to mention that they got a pretty good classical education and are both excelling in college...
Congratulations. You should get some stickers for the back window of your Prius.
Uh, no. Those are the requirements for the initial issuance of a 'Real ID' approved license. If you don't want to present all that stuff you get a regular drivers license, which will not be accepted for ID for domestic flights, etc.
Little Bobby Tables strikes again.
"Wait. Something's happening. It's opening up! My God, it's full of apricots!"
I home schooled my kids... Their school records are not at risk from some underpaid government employee's mistakes.
Not to mention that they got a pretty good classical education and are both excelling in college...
Congratulations. You should get some stickers for the back window of your Prius.
If I ever get one, I guess I will. But my pickup truck is going to have to bite the big one and a Prius is going to have to change to look more like a truck first.
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
Nope, but it's another reason I'm happy I made that choice. (Thus the title of this thread. )
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
Copied.The intruder copied the records. If he had stolen them, the district would no longer have them.
That option is not offered to citizens in my state. If you are a US citizen you are REQUIRED to get a "RealID". I've called and asked the DOT. Even asked them to confirm that, which the nice lady did after putting me on hold for a few minutes.
Only illegals have the option to choose a non-federal ID card, er... I mean "driver's license".
The danger of adding semi-colons to your children's names.
The problem is that it's accessible, attractive and people being naive idiots who value convenience over security at every turn combined with a distinct lack of respect for the people whose information gets handled.
Systems like these should be air-gaped, and access to the information should be on a strictly need to know basis, an audit trail of who accessed it, when and why, and heavy punishments for transgressors.
I was informed by a security expert at a technology convention that personal data (Name, BD, SSN) of children are some of the most valuable data sought after on the dark web. When adults have their security credentials stolen, they discover the theft rather quickly, and any accounts created with the stolen data are shut down in a matter of weeks, giving the stolen credentials little potential value. But children do not check bank account information, or credit card balances, or credit scores until they become adults. Hackers can use that information to bankroll illegal financial activity for years.
Someone enrolled now in preschool may discover 15 years later when they fill out their FAFSA that they owe hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid credit card balances and financial loans. San Diego School District will be liable for decades to come.
Is it PENCIL again?
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Let's see.
The day after the school shooting in Colorado they expelled my middle son because he owned a trench coat but hadn't worn it for over a year because he out grew it. A truancy officer showed up at my house later that afternoon and apologized because apparently the principle that expelled the kids with trench coats had been suspended and all the expulsions expunged.
The same son was expelled for wearing a pentagram. When I confronted the principle she told me that it was a gang sign and I corrected her that it was a religious symbol. She then said there was no place for things like that in a public school. I told her that he would be back to school and I wouldn't say anything else but the cross around her neck was enough that if I ever heard of him or any other kid getting harassed for something like that again I would take legal action.
They tried to expel him for dying the tips of his hair black, I called the principle and told her just no and don't send him home again.
I have 5 sons I could go all day with stories.
ZDNet should hire a spell checker.
If this is CA you are referring to, the license for an illegal is different than for citizens. So, the requirements may be different, but the outcome is different as well.
If this is not CA you are talking about, my apologies for assuming..
On second thought, no you pretty much didn't notice. Think of how incredibly long that is.
Round about 300+ days.
What was the primary reason you home-schooled?
Not speaking for the poster, but the reasons I hear most often, in everyday life, is dissatisfaction with class sizes (our district is up to 27+ students per teacher), religious reasons, safety (people still don't understand that school shootings are statistically super rare and you're way more likely to die in your bathtub, but I digress) and last (and least) is political reasons. The last reason is usually reactionary. i.e. it's not that the parents don't send the kid to school because of "whatever", it's that they pull the kid out of school after "whatever" has set them off.
An anecdote, but when I was younger there was a teacher at our middle school who was a communist.. I mean that literally.. This guy didn't teach about communism and capitalism and then compare the differences.. He didn't teach the history of communism... Those would be reasonable. This guy taught that communism was "the way". He PUSHED communist ideology in every aspect of his classes. I know of 2 parents who jerked their kids out of the school over that. Our district population is pretty conservative, but the district employees are way more liberal. It's caused a lot tension of the years. And, I'm sure, it's caused more than a few people to go the home-school route.
Out here "home school" isn't really what most people imagine.. It's more.. collective. Like, it's not a mom teaching her kids.. It's a mom teaching her kids and the kids of 5 of her neighbors.. More like that.. More efficient I guess.
The first reason we home schooled is to avoid dealing with the liberal bias in education and so we had control over what our kids where being taught. Secondary was that our kids both had learning disabilities that would have made classroom learning difficult for them and being in a school with 2 students and 1 teacher was a clear advantage for them.
So the primary reason was we thought it would produce the best educational outcome for both of them to learn at home. It's hard to know what "could have" been, but I know that it worked out very well for them.
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101