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FL: Former Miami Dade College employee indicted in tax refund fraud scheme

Posted on April 9, 2015 by Dissent

From today’s press release from the USAO for the Southern District of Florida: United States v. Michelson Jeancy, Case No. 15-20230-CR-Huck On April 3, 2015, defendant Michelson Jeancy, 35, of Miami, was charged by indictment for his participation in an identity theft tax fraud scheme. According to the indictment, Jeancy was an employee of a Miami-Dade…

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FL: Another prosecution of fraudsters using student information for tax refund fraud scheme

Posted on April 9, 2015 by Dissent

Another criminal prosecution announced today involved tax refund fraud using information from Miami-Dade Public School students: United States v. Luis Daniel Lopez Morales and Rigo Octavio Lopez, Case No. 15-2428-MJ-Goodman On April 1, 2015, Luis Daniel Lopez Morales, 19, and Rigo Octavio Lopez, 25, both of North Miami, were charged by criminal complaint for their participation in a…

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Franklin & Marshall to notify 356 students whose SSNs were exposed online for two years

Posted on April 8, 2015 by Dissent

There’s been another breach in the education sector, this one involving Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA. On March 19, F&M was notified that two Excel sheets with 356 students’ full names and Social Security numbers was exposed on the public portion of their eDisk network.  The files were promptly removed. An investigation revealed…

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University of California – Riverside notifying 8,000 whose SSNs were on stolen desktop

Posted on April 6, 2015 by Dissent

Mark Muckenfuss reports UC Riverside officials are notifying 8,000 graduate students and graduate applicants that their personal identity information is at risk. A desk-top computer stolen during a break-in at the campus’ graduate division offices March 13, contained the Social Security numbers of the students and potential students. Officials said they had no evidence that…

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Wellesley College data dumped; server vulnerable to SQLi

Posted on April 6, 2015 by Dissent

So yesterday, TeaMp0isoN’s timeline looked like this (click on image to enlarge): Then this happened: Creds to @_TeaMp0isoN_ For Vulnerability Alert. Login Drop. [url redacted by DataBreaches.net] — Chief (@Puttied) April 5, 2015 The data dump was prefaced with this message: DB Drop BY Chief(@Puttied). Site : http://mobius.wellesley.edu/ This is their latest Login DB as…

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Horrific privacy breach by Tewksbury Public Schools

Posted on April 4, 2015 by Dissent

Cross-posted from PogoWasRight.org. Okay, this is really bad, on multiple levels. Brendan Foley and Jayne Miller report: Tewksbury Public Schools face angry parental backlash following the release of private student information online last week. A document included in a 222-page School Committee packet remained online for the better part of a week, before being taken…

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