[Dataloss] Clay High School student hacks into Oregon schools data

[Dissent]

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.

[...]

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