Morgan Smith reports that a breach involving the Texas Education Agency was much worse than originally reported. Last month, the TEA reported that an unencrypted disk containing data on almost 25,000 Laredo Independent School District students had gone missing. But when the Texas Tribune obtained records about the breach, they discovered that there were data…
Category: Breach Incidents
Epsilon a Victim of Spear-Phishing Attack, Says Report (update/correction)
Jaikumar Vijayan follows up on the news story by iTnews, mentioned earlier today, which reported that the Epsilon attack was a spear-phishing attack that resulted in the downloading of malware. Jai makes a point of noting, however, that there’s no proof or confirmation yet from Epsilon that this was a spear-phishing attack. As I commented earlier today,…
UK: Godalming College email gaffe exposes students medical details
A Surrey college has apologised after accidentally e-mailing the private medical details of more than 300 students to an entire year group. The list, meant for Godalming College teachers, names one student with a brain tumour and another with anorexia. Staff tried to recall the message and then asked its lower sixth year group to…
Al Franken keeping eye on Epsilon breach
Tony Romm reports: Add Sen. Al Franken to the growing list of members casting a skeptical eye on Epsilon. A data breach that allowed hackers access to the names and email addresses of consumers who do business with Target, Best Buy, TiVo and other Epsilon clients led Franken (D-Minn.) on Thursday to vow to “do…
AU: Privacy czar to investigate Epsilon email breach
Fallout from the attack on the giant US marketing and communications firm continues to spread, and may affect millions of consumers globally. Dell Australia remains the only local company to admit customer data was compromised when hackers hit Epsilon’s Dallas headquarters last week. While Epsilon has offices in Sydney and Melbourne, it’s not yet clear…
Former Emily Morgan hotel worker pleads guilty in massive theft case
In what has been a looong-running ID theft case involving paper records stolen from the Emily Morgan Hotel in Texas, another defendant, Cody Jones, has pleaded guilty.