Dan Goodin reports: Google, Yahoo, Microsoft’s Bing, and other leading websites are leaking medical histories, family income, search queries, and massive amounts of other sensitive data that can be intercepted even when encrypted, computer scientists revealed in a new research paper. Researchers from Indiana University and Microsoft itself were able to infer the sensitive data…
Category: Breach Incidents
John Hopkins University School of Education enrollment data exposed on web
A file containing student enrollment data from the Johns Hopkins University School of Education was inadvertently left accessible online, according to a letter sent by ID Experts on March 18 to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office. The file was hosted on the SoE server and contained data on students enrolled between 2003-2007. It was…
Haddonfield students arrested in computer hacking
Another hack-to-change-grades scheme? Several Haddonfield Memorial High School students are under police investigation on accusations they hacked into the school’s computer system. The breach was discovered in the last few days, and the students, whom school district officials declined to identify, have been turned over to local police and the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office. At…
Security Breach In Some Union First National Bank Accounts
Some Union First Market Bank customers are upset after learning their private account information is accessible to other customers. Bank administrators say when online bill-pay accounts were transferred from First Market Bank to Union First Market Bank over the weekend, a bad file containing information of around 1000 customers was sent. That data is now…
USCB warns alumni that their personal info might have been stolen with laptop
Patrick Donahue reports: Letters were sent last week to more than 480 former University of South Carolina Beaufort students whose personal information might have been on a school-owned laptop stolen last month in the Atlanta area. University officials say the computer, which belonged to the Office of Housing and Residence Life, was stolen Feb. 6…
Woman in Valley Forge theft ring sentenced
Mary Pat Flaherty and Martin Weil report: Thousands of dollars in unauthorized withdrawals were made from bank accounts in the Washington area after a skimming device was attached to an ATM in Alexandria, authorities said. The device, which captures bank card information, was spotted Feb. 28 at a Wachovia branch in the 3600 block of…