Mila Koumpilova reports: The Minnesota Department of Education improperly released the transcripts of 20 students at the online BlueSky Charter School in November, the department acknowledged Friday. The department uncovered the privacy breach this week while processing a new data request regarding the school, spokeswoman Charlene Briner said. Commissioner Brenda Cassellius, who took over the…
Category: Breach Incidents
Possible security breach involving Xavier University?
On January 26, Jennifer Baker of the Cincinnati Enquirer reported that Miller Beckham III, 32, of Springfield Township was charged with demanding $20,000 from Xavier University in exchange for not publicly releasing personal student documents. On January 27, Cliff Peal of the same paper reported that students had not been notified of any breach and…
UK: Wiltshire Council documents found in wheelie bin
An investigation has been launched after a bag full of birth registrations and internal council emails was found in a household bin in Wiltshire. A couple from Westbury found the Wiltshire Council documents in their wheelie bin soon after it had been emptied. The documents were traced back to Trowbridge. A council spokesman apologised and…
CA: Arrest made in Laguna Beach credit card skimming
Claudia Koerner reports: Police arrested a 27-year-old Glendale man Thursday in connection with placing credit card skimming devices on gas pumps at the Shell Station on Pacific Coast Highway last summer, authorities announced Friday. Akop Tadevosovich Changryan is accused of using the devices to retrieve account information from drivers gassing up their cars at the…
Amazon.com Security Flaw Accepts Passwords That Are Close, But Not Exact
Dylan Tweney reports: An Amazon.com security flaw allows some customers to log in with variations of their actual password that are close to, but not exactly, their real password. The flaw lets Amazon accept as valid some passwords that have extra characters added on after the 8th character, and also makes the password case-insensitive. For…
Maine: Thousands of Five County Credit Union Customers Issued New Cards Following Security Breach
MyFOXMaine reports: Several thousand customers of Five County Credit Union are getting new debit and credit cards after security breaches involving an unnamed retailer and processing center. Five County says about 3,000 credit and debit card customers are getting new cards because of the breach, which happened with a third party, not the credit union….