Remember back in December when Ohio State University announced that it had detected a breach at the end of October and would be notifying 760,000 people who had personally identifiable information on the server? It seems that they are still trying to notify some of them. Encarnacion Pyle reports in The Columbus Dispatch: A hacker…
Category: Education Sector
(update) Hacker accessed HuskyDirect.com database by using vendor’s administrative password
On January 31, lawyers for the University of Connecticut Cooperative Corporation notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office of a breach mentioned previously on this blog. Their letter revealed some previously unreported details, including the fact that the HuskyDirect.com web site was hosted and managed by Fuss & O’Neill Technologies LLC in Connecticut, a firm that does business…
Financial aid hacked; fraud scheme is under active investigation
Gretchen Smail reports: A hacker (or group of hackers) recently attempted to tamper with the financial aid programs offered through the Solano Community College website. The cyber attack happened early in the spring 2011 semester. Students were quickly notified of the fraud via alerts on the Solano website. “It appears that the person(s) of interest…
(follow-up) ME: Little found by police on June data breach
Jamison Cocklin reports: For now, it seems the data breach that occurred last spring when two of the University of Maine’s computer servers were infiltrated by hackers will have few repercussions on the more than 4,000 students affected. Officer Bill Mitchell, a computer forensics specialist who is leading the investigation for the University of Maine…
(update) NC: U.B.E. breach victims total continues to climb
Jackie Drake reports: Greenville Police are handling at least 100 complaints so far from East Carolina University students who say they lost money after their accounts were compromised in a recent security breach at the University Book Exchange. The breach is believed to have occurred between Jan. 5 and Jan. 25 and the case is…
Texas Children’s Hospital informed they may have had security breach
On December 29, Texas Children’s Hospital was notified by the Harris County District Attorney’s Office that its Accounts Payable system may have suffered a security breach. Names and Social Security Numbers of some employees and vendors who received checks between 1999 and 2011 may have been accessed by an unauthorized third party and the information…