The Massey University intranet system utilised by students from all across New Zealand, MyMassey, is under scrutiny after a severe breach of security left thousands of students able to access other people’s highly sensitive information. Rawa Karetai, President of the Albany Students’ Association, was one of the first students to notice this critical error: “I…
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KY: Sensitive information taken from Owensboro college
Stuart Peck reports: The personal information of 3,000 past and present students and faculty at Owensboro Community and Technical College is still missing. Names, social security numbers, and employee and student ID numbers are on a portable computer storage drive missing now for a week. College officials believe someone has taken it and may not…
FBI: Thousands of PR children victims of ID theft
Danica Coto reports: An identity-theft ring that catered to illegal immigrants seeking to establish themselves in the U.S. stole the personal data of 7,000 public school children in Puerto Rico, officials said Tuesday. Members of the ring broke into about 50 schools across the U.S. island territory over the past two years to steal birth…
Pacific University Notifies Campus of Data Security Incident
A University-owned laptop stolen from a staff member’s residence on March 25, 2009 reportedly contained names and some personal information, but not any Social Security numbers. An FAQ on the incident is available on Pacific University’s web site.
ACU says computer server hacked
Brian Bethel reports: An Abilene Christian University computer server was hacked near the end of February, but university officials do not at this point believe any personal information was distributed. An e-mail dated one week ago from the college’s information technology branch states that the school experienced a security breach in a database containing myACU…
TX: UPD looking into stolen debit cards
Brandon Scott of The Huntsville Item reports: The University Police Department has been investigating reported stolen debit cards of students from Sam Houston State University. Huntsville police and the University police have totaled 24 cases of debit card and identity theft within the past month, all of which have been campus issued BearkatOne cards.