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A leading education software maker has admitted its IT environment was compromised in a cyberattack, with students and teachers' personal data – including some Social Security Numbers and medical info ...

While artificial intelligence has long supported higher education research initiatives, it’s now expanding into areas that touch student data. Examples include face recognition in surveillance cameras ...

CARY, N.C. (WTVD) -- The Wake County Public School System (WCPSS) has confirmed a data breach involving a system that contains teachers' and students' information. The district sent the following ...

The second-largest public school system in the US, located in Los Angeles, said that a group of extortionists hacked a sizable database but had not exposed as much private information as they expected ...

A $100 million database set up to store extensive records on millions of public school students has stumbled badly since its launch this spring, with officials in several states backing away from the ...

On March 31, the UC system announced that it was one of 300 organizations affected by a nationwide cyberattack on Accellion’s File Transfer Appliance, a vendor service used for “transferring sensitive ...

BOISE, Idaho — A worldwide data breach has compromised personally identifiable information about some students at several Idaho public colleges and universities, the Office of the Idaho State Board of ...

The Student Information System, also known as SIS, is the university's administrative system for collecting and storing academic data. Students (including some alumni), faculty and administrators may ...

The graduate students in Carrie Klein's higher education administration courses are well aware that the colleges and universities where they work collect and use data about their undergraduates. But ...