{"id":14735,"date":"2019-09-04T06:00:51","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T11:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=14735"},"modified":"2019-09-03T23:04:20","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T04:04:20","slug":"thec-reports-no-student-data-exposed-in-tennessee-vendors-suspected-data-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2019\/09\/04\/thec-reports-no-student-data-exposed-in-tennessee-vendors-suspected-data-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"THEC reports No Student Data Exposed in Tennessee Vendor\u2019s Suspected Data Breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-346130\" title=\"Tennessee Higher Education Commission\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Tennessee-Higher-Education-Commission.jpg\" alt=\"Tennessee Higher Education Commission\" width=\"250\" height=\"76\">Nashville, TN <\/strong>&#8211; The Tennessee Higher Education Commission (THEC) has announced that no student information was compromised when unauthorized server access occurred on a state vendor\u2019s system last month.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_315479\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/School-Education.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-315479\" class=\"wp-image-315479 size-medium\" title=\"Tennessee Higher Education Commission reports No Student Information was Exposed during unauthorized server access.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/School-Education-480x313.jpg\" alt=\"Tennessee Higher Education Commission reports No Student Information was Exposed during unauthorized server access.\" width=\"480\" height=\"313\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-315479\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tennessee Higher Education Commission reports No Student Information was Exposed during unauthorized server access.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cImmediately after determining a possible breach had occurred, our agency, working with the website vendor and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI), launched an inquiry focused on ensuring the privacy of Tennessee students,\u201d said THEC Executive Director Mike Krause.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are, of course, relieved that the inquiry indicated no student data was taken, and want to thank the TBI, the Attorney General and the state\u2019s Strategic Technology Solutions team for their assistance throughout this process,\u201d Krasue stated.<\/p>\n<p>On July 17th, Graduation Alliance, the state vendor that provides data and web-hosting support for CollegeforTN.org, notified THEC that unauthorized access may have happened due to unusual server traffic. The data housed on the impacted servers contained some Tennessee student information, but did not include any Social Security numbers, financial, driver\u2019s license, or health information.<\/p>\n<p>After receiving notification from the vendor, THEC began a collaborative investigation in concert with all state agency stakeholders and the vendor.<\/p>\n<p>Upon completion of the forensic investigation, conclusive results indicate that no student information was exposed and that a technical breach of the data did not occur.<\/p>\n<p>Students may resume use of the CollegeforTN.org website for college and career planning in September. THEC has established a toll-free number that students and parents may call 800.342.1663 for additional information.<\/p>\n<h3>About the Tennessee Higher Education Commission<\/h3>\n<p>The Tennessee Higher Education Commission was created in 1967 by the Tennessee General Assembly. The Commission develops, implements, and evaluates postsecondary education policies and programs in Tennessee while coordinating the state\u2019s systems of higher education, and is relentlessly focused on increasing the number of Tennesseans with a postsecondary credential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nashville, TN &#8211; The Tennessee Higher Education Commission (THEC) has announced that no student information was compromised when unauthorized server access occurred on a state vendor\u2019s system last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[10676,284,1842,1841,5317,5318],"class_list":["post-14735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","tag-mike-krause","tag-nashville-tn","tag-tbi","tag-tennessee-bureau-of-investigation","tag-tennessee-higher-education-commission","tag-thec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14736,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14735\/revisions\/14736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}