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Data Breach Reported At Mount Pleasant Central School District Data Breach Reported At Mount Pleasant Central School District
Data Breach Reported At Mount Pleasant Central School District A data breach may have exposed information related to some students at a school district in Northern Westchester.  The breach was announced by Mount Pleasant Central School District Superintendent Peter Giarrizzo on Friday, Feb. 17, who said that several student email passwords may have been compromised by the incident.  After the data breach was discovered on Friday, an investigation into the matter found that several passwords belonging to Grade 7 students in the district had been posted to a shared Google Classroom during the 2020-2021 school year. After this document was …
Hateful Images, Messages Sent To Westwood Regional Students Probed By Cyber Crime Detectives Hateful Images, Messages Sent To Westwood Regional Students Probed By Cyber Crime Detectives
Hateful Images, Messages Sent To Westwood Regional Students Probed By Cyber Crime Detectives An underage saboteur used the online account of a Westwood Regional High School student to email hateful messages to most of the victim’s classmates – among them, an image of a Ku Klux Klansman accompanied by an anti-Semitic caption, authorities said. The Bergen County Prosecutor’s Cyber Crimes Unit and Washington Township police are investigating the bias incident, which district officials traced to a “non-district minor’s” IP address, Schools Supt. Jill Mortimer wrote in a message to parents and staff members. “Please know this was not a breach of our network or system,” Mortimer emphasiz…
Baltimore Student Passes Returns To Classroom After Missing 140 Days: Report Baltimore Student Passes Returns To Classroom After Missing 140 Days: Report
Baltimore Student Passes Returns To Classroom After Missing 140 Days: Report A Baltimore City Public Schools student missed 140 days of classes — but he's still passing, Fox 45 reports. Qwantay Spearman, a thriving student at ConneXions, was unable to attend school this year after the school failed to provide a nurse, something required as part of his IEP, the outlet said. And so, Spearman was left with no choice but to do a virtual learning option that consisted mostly of Google Classroom assignments, without any guidance, according to Fox45. The student only able to begin in-person learning recently — around the same time his mom, Latasha Phillips, got a rep…
Juvenile Used Racial Slurs After Remotely Breaking Into HS Class In Fairfield County Juvenile Used Racial Slurs After Remotely Breaking Into HS Class In Fairfield County
Juvenile Used Racial Slurs After Remotely Breaking Into HS Class In Fairfield County A juvenile is facing several charges after remotely breaking into the online classroom of a high school in the region, and then using racial slurs, according to police. The incident happened in Connecticut in the fall of 2020. Late on Friday, May 28, in Fairfield County, members of the Newtown Police Department charged the local youth for cybercrimes. The arrest was made at the conclusion of a six-month-long police investigation, of unknown persons accessing Google classrooms at Newtown High School and using racial epithets, in an abusive and disruptive manner. School Resource Officer W…
Google Comes Back Online After Massive Worldwide Outage After Gmail, YouTube Google Comes Back Online After Massive Worldwide Outage After Gmail, YouTube
Google Comes Back Online After Massive Worldwide Outage After Gmail, YouTube 2020 strikes again. Google temporarily went down for approximately an hour early in the morning on Monday, Dec. 14, impacting its many services, including Gmail, Google Docs, Google Maps, and YouTube. The outages were reported on social media shortly before  7 a.m. on Monday, with most of Google’s services - including Google Classroom, which prevented some students around the world from remote learning temporarily - back shortly after 8 a.m., though it remained down longer for some. The outage impacted both mobile and desktop devices. It was reportedly caused by an authentication sy…
COVID-19: Northern Westchester School Goes Remote Due To Number Of Student, Staff Quarantines COVID-19: Northern Westchester School Goes Remote Due To Number Of Student, Staff Quarantines
Covid-19: Northern Westchester School Goes Remote Due To Number Of Student, Staff Quarantines A staffing shortage at a Northern Westchester school due to COVID-19 has forced a transition to distance learning for the rest of the week. Bedford Schools Superintendent Joel Adelberg issued a notice to the community this week after learning that multiple students and staff members at Fox Lane Middle School will be forced to temporarily quarantine after potentially being exposed to the virus. In response, Fox Lane Middle School will switch to remote learning from Tuesday, Nov. 10 through Friday, Nov. 13, with students returning to the classroom on Monday, Nov. 16. During the quarantine, Ad…
Teacher Thrills 50 Bergen, Passaic Students With Personalized Book Deliveries Teacher Thrills 50 Bergen, Passaic Students With Personalized Book Deliveries
Teacher Thrills 50 Bergen, Passaic Students With Personalized Book Deliveries Bergen Arts and Science Charter School teacher Marisa Schussler was cleaning out her Clifton home when she came across a pile of untouched Scholastic books last week. Two days later, Schussler was in her car delivering the books along with a note to each one of her 50 students' homes spread across Bergen County. "It’s a scary and uncertain time for them," said Schussler, 27. "I just wanted to bring them a little happiness." Schussler, in her third year of teaching at the Garfield K-3 school, was given a week's notice to plan for virtual learning on the onset of the COVID-19 outbr…