Earnest Baldwin, 36 of Miami, and Earl Baldwin, 42 of Miami were convicted on April 10 for their participation in a tax refund scheme using stolen identities. They had been charged in October 2012. According to testimony and evidence presented at trial, the defendants were involved in an identity theft tax fraud scheme that operated from…
Category: Education Sector
The “we’re just one of many” excuse doesn’t fly here
With all the news about #OpIsrael, it was easy to miss a breach that was reported today involving Kirkwood Community College in Iowa. On March 13, they were hacked, and the hacker had access to 125,000 records from students who had applied online for credit courses between February 2005 and March 5, 2013. The school…
Two years and one federal clue stick later, Tallahassee Community College finds out they had breach
From the college’s press release today: Tallahassee Community College, on Friday, announced that an unauthorized acquisition of computerized data that may materially compromise the security, confidentiality, or integrity of personal information occurred in March 2011. College officials were recently notified of the breach of security by federal officials. The federal investigation resulted in the conviction…
Data breaches in higher education
TeamSHATTER reports on data breaches in the higher education vertical throughout the United States. The past year has seen a substantial uptick in the amount of total records breached. In 2012, there was a dramatic increase in the total number of reported records affected (1,977,412), but a relatively low amount of institutions (51) that reported…
Arkansas State U. faculty victims of tax refund fraud, but source of breach still unknown
One month after it became aware that some faculty members had become victims of tax refund fraud, Arkansas State University still hasn’t figured out whether the breach was of their system or a third-party vendor’s. By now, 150 employees have reported problems. KAIT8 has the story.
Antioch district working to fix inadvertent disclosure of employee data
Paul Burgarino reports: District officials have been working to fix an inadvertent disclosure of some personal employee information that spread last week via email. While a former Antioch Unified employee was trying to pass on information about a replacement’s responsibilities at the end of the workday Jan. 18, the employee attached a file to an…