As a follow-up to a previously reported breach involving a hack of HuskyDirect.com, there are now some reports suggesting that the data may have been misused. Back on January 11, U.Conn had posted a notice to its web site: The UConn Co-op was informed by its vendor that there has been a data security incident involving…
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28 million Plenty of Fish users’ personal details hacked – report (updated)
The founder and CEO of dating site Plenty of Fish reports that the site has been hacked and users’ names, email addresses, and passwords may have been acquired. Whether PayPal account information and other personal details were also acquired is uncertain and depends on whose version of the hack you read. It’s also uncertain whether…
New York woman pleads guilty to ID theft scheme
Kylie Cerda, 46, pleaded guilty last week to stealing more than $300,000 dollars from JPMorgan Chase Bank and more than $30,000 dollars from Citibank through the use of stolen bank customer account numbers, identities, and personal identifying information. The plea was announced by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance. According to documents filed in court and…
Minnesota Education Department improperly releases transcripts from online charter school
Mila Koumpilova reports: The Minnesota Department of Education improperly released the transcripts of 20 students at the online BlueSky Charter School in November, the department acknowledged Friday. The department uncovered the privacy breach this week while processing a new data request regarding the school, spokeswoman Charlene Briner said. Commissioner Brenda Cassellius, who took over the…
Possible security breach involving Xavier University?
On January 26, Jennifer Baker of the Cincinnati Enquirer reported that Miller Beckham III, 32, of Springfield Township was charged with demanding $20,000 from Xavier University in exchange for not publicly releasing personal student documents. On January 27, Cliff Peal of the same paper reported that students had not been notified of any breach and…
Veterans Administration December report to Congress
I was just reading through the VA’s Monthly Report to Congress of Data Incidents for the period Nov 29, 2010 – Jan 2, 2010. Apart from the usual reports about mis-mailings and the like, I noticed two incidents worth noting here: Incident Summary – White River Junction, VT: A Dartmouth owned thin client device located in…