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Ca: Hacker wreaks havoc on Thames board website

Posted on October 21, 2010 by Dissent

Norman De Bono reports: A computer hacker breached security on the Thames Valley District school board’s website, meaning marks and timetables for 27,000 students – a small city of teenagers – could be accessed. The board has called in police and said the system was shut down “within an hour,” with no chance marks could…

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Computer security at Tech questioned

Posted on October 17, 2010 by Dissent

Suzanne Barteau reports: A procedural mishap at New Mexico Tech’s Computer Center may have allowed the Social Security numbers of a few thousand people to be publicly available to anyone with a Tech computer account for nearly five years. William Colburn, Tech graduate, former Tech employee and Tech Community College instructor and current Tech student,…

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UC Davis Medical Center notified 900 patients of data theft

Posted on October 16, 2010 by Dissent

Bobby Caina Calvan of the Sacramento Bee reports: UC Davis Medical Center officials said financial documents and other data containing information about 900 patients were stolen in an August burglary of a West Sacramento courier service. A med center spokesman, Charles Casey, said the affected patients were notified of the incident, and “the risk of identity…

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University of North Florida: over 106,000 being notified of hack from outside of U.S.

Posted on October 15, 2010 by Dissent

The University of North Florida has issued this statement on its website: Impacted individuals being notified Between September 24, 2010 and September 29, 2010, a UNF file containing the personal information of high school and college students (and others interested in UNF) may have been accessed by unauthorized persons outside the United States.  While immediate steps…

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Former MedAssets employee sentenced to 15 years in University of Texas Medical Branch breach

Posted on October 14, 2010 by Dissent

This is a follow-up to the University of Texas Medical Branch breach previously reported here and here. United States Attorney John E. Murphy announced that in Waco, 34-year-old Katina Candrick of LaGrange, Texas, was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison and ordered to pay $163,185.19 restitution for unlawful possession of fraudulent identification documents and…

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Insider wrongdoing a low point for High Point University

Posted on October 12, 2010 by Dissent

In late June, High Point University in North Carolina discovered that an employee who had access to personal information of students had misused the credit card  information of nine individuals for fraudulent purposes. The university notified the Maryland Attorney General’s Office on July 15 that they were notifying  634 Maryland residents of the breach.  The employee…

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