Major Breach at Houston Texas School District

[Henry Brown <hbrown () knology net>]

 From the Houston Chronicle 
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7321902.html

Dec. 3, 2010,

Hundreds of thousands of students and employees in the Houston school 
district had their Social Security numbers and other personal data 
exposed to a suspected computer hacker, HISD officials announced on 
Thursday.

A criminal investigation, launched in October after district employees 
noticed a security breach, has found that the hacking was more severe 
than initially thought, leaving students' grades and employees' bank 
account information vulnerable.

Only one student's personal records were viewed, and nothing appears to 
have been changed, according to authorities, but the suspected hacker 
had access to 10 years of private data on students, employees, vendors 
and job applicants in the nation's seventh-largest school district.

...

With about 30,000 employees and 202,000 students, HISD has loads of 
personal data online. Most of the district's 9,000 vendors are less 
vulnerable because they don't have Social Security numbers on file, 
Garrett said.

...
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