Candace Carlisle of the Denton Record-Chronicle reports that a student at Texas Woman’s University discovered that he could access the uni’s Degree Audit Report System. DARS does not contain student identifiers, but it does contain a copy of students’ names, courses, and grades. Exposure of such information may be a FERPA violation, but based on…
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CA: Thieves Targeted Computers For Credit, Tax Data
CBS News reports that thieves with a master key stole scores of computers from approximately 60 out of 80 tenant businesses in the Chateau Office Building on Ventura Blvd. They estimate that at least 7,000 credit card numbers, 800 tax documents and other sensitive files were stolen. Unlike other thefts which are described as being…
(follow-up) Culpeper breach: no one’s responsible because it was a hack?
As a follow-up to the incident reported here, a Culpeper resident wrote a letter to the editor of their local paper that provides a bit more information on the breach and the position of the town in terms of its responsibility — or lack of responsibility — to provide any free credit monitoring. According to…
VA: Personnel records from trucking company found in dumpster
Eric Harryman of WAVY reports that eight boxes with thousands of personnel records from Warrior Xpress trucking company were left in a dumpster. The documents included medical records, tax forms, voided checks and copied credit cards. Warrior Xpress had been bought by Celadon Trucking, who told WAVY, “For those who met our hiring criteria, we…
CO: Expansion of DNA sampling law progresses in Senate
Senate Bill 241, proposed by John Morse, would require anyone arrested for a felony to submit a DNA sample. The proposed law expands DNA collection from the current law that limits DNA collection to those who are convicted and would affect approximately 60,000 people each year. Although there are provisions to allow people to request…
IRS Awards Tax Payment Contract to RBS Worldpay
Brian Krebs of The Washington Post reports that The Internal Revenue Service has awarded a contract to process tax return payments for the coming filing season to RBS Worldpay, a company that recently disclosed that a hacker break-in jeopardized financial data on 1.5 million payroll card holders and at least 1.1 million Social Security numbers….