Hackers broke into a Maine-based computer server and exposed credit card records of more than 1,000 customers at the University of Arkansas Computer Store, school officials said Thursday. The school discovered Tuesday the breach could affect as many as 1,007 computer store customers who made online transactions during the past four years. University officials continue…
Author: Dissent
Plaxo online address book service warns of security breach
Online address book service Plaxo has confirmed that an unknown malicious third-party gained access to the company’s API connection to Google’s address book and calendar. As a result of the security breach, Google took precautionary measures and temporarily disabled the connection, and sent Google account holders a “Suspicious sign in prevented” email advising them that…
The Twitter hack that wasn’t?
When the news started circulating a few nights ago that Twitter had been hacked and over 55,000 logins had been dumped on the Internet, I looked at the five pastes comprising the data dump. The data didn’t look right to me, and as I told a colleague on DataLossDB, I was going to hold off…
UNC-Charlotte breach affects 350,000
Remember that breach that the University of North Carolina at Charlotte disclosed back in February? Well, they’ve finally released some details and it’s a doozy. Chris Dyches reports: An investigation into the incident shows that financial account numbers and approximately 350,000 social security numbers were included among the exposed data. The exposure has been remediated, officials…
OR: Former Bank Manager Guilty of Identity Theft, Bank Fraud
Another insider breach involving bank personnel: Randy Arlan Mainwaring, 41, former manager of the Thurston Branch of Key Bank in Springfield, Oregon, pled guilty to identity theft and bank fraud in federal court Monday. He is scheduled to be sentenced on July 17, 2012 before U.S. District Judge Michael R. Hogan. In pleading guilty, Mainwaring…
Morning musing
If posting has been light, there are reasons. For one thing, I’ve been entering most new incidents directly into DataLossDB.org. If you’re not already checking DLDB and you want to really keep up with breach reports, bookmark that resource. But I’m also in data heaven right now, having received 3+ years’ of data breach reports…