Over 100K Clarksville City residents information compromised
Looks like a hacker group has published a list of names, social security numbers, and school system computer passwords online. The group’s message is:
Clarksville, Tennessee was primarily targeted due to their belligerence. To be clear here, We gave Tennessee a chance to comply and they didn’t, therefore, this is the consequence they’ll have to swallow.
No idea what they were supposed to comply with. Anyone?
Update: Also, no local press coverage at all. People might want to know that.
June 11th, 2012 at 12:58 pm
They want to expose the “murder of America” so they release info on a bunch of schoolkids? WTF kind of idiots are these people?
And why does the school have all these kids’ SS numbers anyway?
June 11th, 2012 at 12:59 pm
what is the “murder of America”?
June 11th, 2012 at 1:05 pm
Who knows?
Some kind of hivemind bullcrap that a group of 4chan retards who think they are elite cyber-commandos cooked up.
June 11th, 2012 at 1:17 pm
http://www.newschannel5.com/story/18756919/student-employee-info-hacked-in-montgomery-county
That’s local TV news
June 11th, 2012 at 1:32 pm
That story by NC5 doesn’t indicate that the data was already released.
Heck, I’ve already found some teachers whose data is on the list (SSN and all), but they weren’t aware of it, and it’s been out there half the day.
June 11th, 2012 at 1:34 pm
You’d think that the school would have notified the students and teachers already.
June 11th, 2012 at 1:42 pm
Just heard that the teachers are getting phone alerts now. Good to know.
June 11th, 2012 at 1:52 pm
BTW…NC5 updated their story at some point to say that it had been released.
June 11th, 2012 at 2:27 pm
My assumption is that the Clarksville schools didn’t comply with a request to harden their systems to protect data. “Fix your systems or be hacked.”
Then, they release the data.
Yeah.
June 11th, 2012 at 4:39 pm
The school district should be financially liable, without limit, for any loss of income or injury.
Mandatory enrollment of children; mandatory to provide the SSNs and other personal information = fully culpable.
June 11th, 2012 at 7:07 pm
The Last Train leaving Clarksville, report to the Principal’s Office…
June 11th, 2012 at 8:13 pm
>And why does the school have all these kids’ SS numbers anyway?
Because it’s used in so many places that students can’t reasonably expect to avoid it. I know Purdue was using SSNs as student IDs as recently as 2004, it was so common for kids to have given the college their SSN anyway. Should never have been the case, but it’s how things are.
June 12th, 2012 at 12:12 pm
“Because it’s used in so many places that students can’t reasonably expect to avoid it.”
Bull. Just refuse to give it and tell them to make up a number of their choosing to use as an “id” number. I, in the not *too* distant past, did exactly that at three different schools in Washington State. They already have a process in place to do exactly that; such a process is *required* because not *all* potential students even *have* an SSN.