In the criminal justice system: A Baldwin woman who used to work for CitiBank will now spend two years in prison for aggravated identity theft and bank fraud. A federal judge in Jacksonville handed down 26-year-old Isla Brumfield’s sentence Thursday. According to court documents, Brumfield had worked in the Customer Service Sales Department at CitiBank….
Category: Education Sector
CO: Stolen computer contained 1,300 Social Security numbers
Zach Fridell reports: Ten years’ worth of Social Security numbers for 1,300 past and present employees was compromised Tuesday night when a laptop was stolen from the Steamboat Springs School District office. Read more on Steamboat Today & Pilot
Ca: Ryerson software error exposes limited amount of personal information
Ryerson University today initiated a plan to notify individuals whose personal information may have been exposed due to an isolated software error discovered in the University’s Student Administration System (SAS) which went live with an upgrade on November 17, 2008. Ryerson became aware of the incident when three students voluntarily contacted the University and provided…
How many strikes before they’re out?
A tip of my cap to Jai Vijayan of Computerworld, who in the process of digging into the second recent University of Florida breach realized that the university had had a third breach in the past three months that hadn’t made the media. Three breaches in three months sounds pretty bad, but it sounds even…
Del Mar students informed of stolen info
Mike Baird reports: As many as 53 students in the Del Mar College General Education Development Program have been informed that a printed class roster, with some of the student’s personal information, was stolen from an instructor’s vehicle Sunday, school officials announced today. Read more on caller.com
UF notifies thousands of possible breach of ‘Grove’ computer system
From a University of Florida announcement: University of Florida officials are making every effort to notify more than 97,200 people that an intruder gained access to a computer system containing files with their personal information. The files included the names and Social Security numbers of students, faculty and staff who used the “Grove” computer system…