Karen Zapf and Adam Brandolph report that as many as 322 UPMC employees have been affected by the breach, the system said last week. Read more on TribLive. Note that although the TribLive headline and story referred to this as a UPMC breach, I don’t think it’s actually been confirmed that UPMC had a breach,…
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University of Maryland data breach smaller than first thought
WBAL reports: The data breach at the University of Maryland is smaller than first announced. According to the university’s website, there were 287,580 records breached, about 21,499 fewer than first reported. But here’s the better-late-than-never news of note: The school said 78 percent of the records in the affected database have now been permanently purged,…
Behind The Scenes—What One Major University Learned After A Data Breach
Jeanne Price of idRADAR interviewed a University of Maryland spokesperson about their recent breach. The interview provides a nice insider’s perspective on breach response, and you may wish to read it all here. Perhaps the most startling revelation was this one: UMD did not have a data breach crisis plan in place before the event,…
CA: San Juan Unified School District notifies parents of information security breach
Sharokina Shams reports: Officials at a Sacramento school district are notifying parents that records containing personal identifying information were found at the Southern California home of a wire fraud suspect. The San Juan Unified School District posted the information on its website Friday, one day after KCRA 3 informed the district that an FBI investigation had…
NY: Audit of Frontier Central School District finds inadequate security and policies for mobile devices
An audit of Frontier Central School District by the Office of the New York State Comptroller was released yesterday. The audit covered the period July 1, 2010 — August 22, 2013 and included audit of mobile device use and security. As background: there are six schools in operation within the District, with approximately 5,100 students and 1,000 employees. The…
Mississippi woman pleads guilty in stolen identity fraud case
Jackson, Miss – Marietta Harris, 38, of Jackson, pled guilty on March 5, 2014 to conspiring to defraud the United States, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis. She will be sentenced on May 15, 2014 by U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate and faces a maximum penalty of ten years in prison and a $250,000…