Nanette Asimov reports: Stanford Business School officials are admitting that for years they have given steep price breaks to preferred applicants while claiming the scholarships were only for needy students — and say they will close a glitch that allowed public access to thousands of confidential student financial aid records. A student discovered in February…
Month: November 2017
Florida-based credit firm left 111GB of sensitive customer data exposed on AWS server
Patrick Howell O’Neill reports: A Florida-based credit repair company left 111 gigabytes of extremely sensitive customer information and internal company data publicly accessible on the internet possibly for up to two years. The National Credit Federation publicly exposed 47,000 files that included customer names, addresses, dates of birth, driver’s licenses, Social Security cards, credit reports,…
National data breach notification law introduced by Senate Commerce Committee members
Patrick Howell O’Neill reports: Three Democratic senators introduced legislation on Thursday requiring companies to notify customers of data breaches within thirty days of their discovery and imposing a five year prison sentence on organizations caught concealing data breaches. The new bill, called the Data Security and Breach Notification Act, was introduced in the wake of reports…
More than two years after compromise, Combat Brands was still battling malware?
First, there was this: On January 25, 2017, Combat Brands began investigating some unusual activity reported by its credit card processor. Combat Brands immediately began to work with third-party forensic experts to investigate these reports and to identify any signs of compromise on its systems. On February 23, 2017, Combat Brands discovered that it was…
Russian Cyber-Criminal Roman Valeryevich Seleznev Sentenced to 14 Years in Prison for Role in Organized Cybercrime Ring Responsible for $50 Million in Online Identity Theft and $9 Million Bank Fraud Conspiracy
There’s an update to a case this site has been following for the past several years. A Russian cyber-criminal was sentenced today to 14 years in prison for his role in a $50 million cyberfraud ring and for defrauding banks of $9 million through a hacking scheme. Roman Valeryevich Seleznev aka Track2, Bulba and Ncux,…
State Ag Dept.: East Texas school districts among those affected by ransomware
Meredith Shamburger reports: Several East Texas school districts have been affected by a computer security breach, with students’ personal information potentially being compromised, according to a notice from the Texas Department of Agriculture. Affected school districts include New Diana ISD, Ore City ISD, Gilmer ISD, Gladewater ISD, Harleton ISD, Harrison County Juvenile Services, Karnack ISD,…