{"id":328,"date":"2015-11-24T19:07:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T19:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/2015\/11\/24\/u-s-e-d-inspector-general-education-data-is-not-safe-activists-on-the-scene\/"},"modified":"2015-11-24T19:07:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T19:07:00","slug":"u-s-e-d-inspector-general-education-data-is-not-safe-activists-on-the-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/u-s-e-d-inspector-general-education-data-is-not-safe-activists-on-the-scene\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S.E.D. Inspector General. Education Data is Not Safe. Activists on the Scene."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>When did the Inspector General testify that U.S. Department of Education data is not safe?<\/strong>\u00a0While testifying at a November 17, 2015 hearing of the\u00a0House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why is federal education data vulnerable to hackers?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>lax controls over who can access student data<\/li>\n<li>outdated technology<\/li>\n<li>inadequate data security<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What type of student data does USED keep?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>139 million Social Security numbers<\/li>\n<li>sensitive financial aid borrower information about students and families<\/li>\n<li>\u00a097,000 account\/users with access to this information\n<ul>\n<li>Less than 20% have had a background check to receive a security clearance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Chairman\u00a0<strong>Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT)<\/strong>\u00a0summed up the problem: \u201c[A]most half of the population of the United States of America has their personal information sitting in this database, which is not secure.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2015\/11\/21\/u-s-department-of-education-data-system-riddled-with-vulnerabilities-for-students\/\">Breitbart |\u00a0U.S. Department of Education Data System Riddled With Vulnerabilities For Students<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>When did the Inspector General testify that U.S. Department of Education data is not safe?<\/strong>\u00a0While testifying at a November 17, 2015 hearing of the\u00a0House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why is federal education data vulnerable to hackers?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>lax controls over who can access student data<\/li>\n<li>outdated technology<\/li>\n<li>inadequate data security<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What type of student data does USED keep?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>139 million Social Security numbers<\/li>\n<li>sensitive financial aid borrower information about students and&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,16,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-trend","category-government-data-breach","category-student-data-privacy","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}