Elinor Mills reports: Thousands of user names and passwords for Comcast customers was removed from document sharing Web site Scribd on Monday, two months after it was posted there. Scribd removed the list of more than 8,000 passwords and user names after being contacted by Brad Stone at The New York Times. Stone wrote that…
Category: Breach Incidents
Stolen computer at UT contains personal information of students, faculty
A computer stolen from the University of Toledo contained personal information for about 24,000 students and 450 faculty during the 2007-08 and 2008-09 academic years, the university announced Monday. […] The computer was password protected and many of the files were specifically encrypted or individually password protected, he said. The personal data was saved on…
Binghamton U. exploring criminal charges against student reporters
If you’re standing in a public space in a state university building, and you look up and wonder what a door from what appears to be a mezzanine leads to, and you climb up to find out, open an unmarked door that has tape over the lock, and then take photographs of records containing personal…
Bits ‘n Pieces
In the justice system: An employee of Washington Mutual Bank in Joliet was arrested and charged with organizing a financial crimes enterprise, conspiring to commit financial crimes, participating in a continuing financial crimes enterprise, theft and four counts of financial identity theft. More. Washoe County sheriff’s deputies have arrested David Michael Baker in Reno on…
RBS WorldPay denies second breach
When rumors were swirling last month about a “new” breach related to Visa and MasterCard alerts , there was speculation in a number of quarters as to whether the newest alerts were related to a second breach at RBS WorldPay that had previously been undetected or perhaps the new round of alerts might be because…
Statement from Heartland Payment Systems
Just sent to me by HPS: Heartland Payment Systems (NYSE: HPY) is pleased to continue our long relationship with Visa. Heartland is cooperating fully with Visa and other card brands and we are committed to having a safe and secure processing environment. Heartland was certified as PCI-DSS compliant in April 2008 and expects to continue…