For clarity: security breaches have only been alleged by users, and ProctorU, a partner of ExamSoft, has had a breach. Once institutions purchase a thing, they have to justify that purchase you cant just leave it on the shelf, he said. A few also noted low usage: A spokesman at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, for example, wrote in an email that it does utilize Proctorio software, but in a limited way, with 115 of some 8,400 courses less than 2 percent using the software during the fall-2021 semester. Cybersecurity company finds hacker selling info on 186 million U.S. voters (At least one online-proctoring company, ProctorU, had previously reported a data breach, in 2020 an incident in which a hacker posted the records of nearly 450,000 people registered with the service, including their email addresses, full names, street addresses, and phone numbers. Many colleges and their faculty members remain worried about academic integrity in the summer of 2020, at least, 93 percent of nearly 800 surveyed instructors said they believed online exams encouraged cheating. Our software does not make inaccurate determinations about violations of exam integrity because our software does not make any determinations about breaches of exam integrity. According to Proctorios FAQ, Proctorios software does not perform any type of algorithmic decision making, such as determining if a breach of exam integrity has occurred. This is, to put it mildly. ProctorU said that no financial information was compromised in the breach. March 30. Proctorios most popular product offering, Automated Proctoringrecords raw evidence of potentially-suspicious activity that may indicate breaches in exam integrity. But dont worry: exam administrators have the ability and obligation to independently analyze the data and determine whether an exam integrity violation has occurred and whether or how to respond to it. Learn about the latest issues in cyber security and how they affect you. Erin works primarily on ClassAction.orgs newswire, reporting on cases as they happen. Online Test-Taking Software ProctorU Violates Ill - Class Action
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