Noelle Phillips reports: USC has experienced computer security breach that has exposed 31,000 people’s private information, including social security numbers, on the internet. The security breach was discovered in January on a computer server at USC Sumter, but it potentially affected faculty, staff, retirees and students throughout the university system’s eight campuses. “Letters went out…
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UK: Prison for Four Who Ran Ghostmarket.net
Jeremy Kirk reports the final chapter in a case first noted on this blog last August and updated in November: Four men who ran what U.K. police say was the largest English-language criminal forum for selling stolen credit card numbers and the tools to steal data were imprisoned for a combined total of more than…
Kr: Customers’ Information of Five-Star Hotel Exposed on Google
As the issue of privacy continues to become an ever increasing cause of concern in this technological world the personal information of guests staying at a group of luxury hotels in Korea has been found on Google. According to media reports Friday, customers’ information at the Ambassador Hotel Group, including names, birth dates, e-mail addresses,…
6,000 Missouri State U. Students Have Social Security Numbers Exposed on Web
KTTS alerts us to a breach involving Missouri State University students. A statement on MSU’s web site explains: Missouri State University officials are notifying 6,030 College of Education students that their social security numbers may have been compromised as a result of an internal security breach. In October and November 2010, in preparation for an…
FL: Seacoast Bank customers’ cards replaced after Fort Pierce ‘skimming’ incident
This seems like a second skimming incident involving a RaceTrac gas station in Florida, as the street address is different than that reported in a previous skimming incident. Paul Mice reports: A few thousand Seacoast National Bank customers have received new credit or debit cards in recent weeks because a handful of them were victims…
Cord Blood Registry notifies 300,000 of stolen backup tapes (updated)
I first became aware of the following breach from DataLossDB.org. It was reported to them by one of those affected who also reported it on ScamSafe: ScamSafe appears to be the first to report a serious data breach at Cord Blood Registry (www.cordblood.com). No mention has been found of this breach in the news or…