Thanks to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office for posting breach notices online: Student Loan Xpress, Inc. reported (pdf) that the service provider for their student loans, American Education Services, inadvertently transmitted personal information on student loans to another lender that AES also has contracts with. The information may have included names, addresses, Social Security…
Category: Breach Incidents
StayFriends members’ personal info exposed by SQL injection
The same individual, “unu,” who has been exposing other web sites vulnerable to SQL injection, has issued some screen shots showing how the German site, StayFriends, left its over 7 million users’ personal information vulnerable to exposure or access. According to the account of the hack, the exposure involved names, email addresses, passwords, some credit…
Meanwhile, back at the Heartland breach
Like most blogs, DataBreaches.net totally abandoned any attempt to track all of the affected entities. Instead, we have been trying to support BankInfoSecurity.com‘s efforts to keep track. Expect the numbers of affected banks and credit unions to rise to 500 or more next week after they have a chance to enter about five dozen links…
Tantalizing confirmation of another big breach
There’s been a lot of speculation recently about another big breach, unrelated to the Heartland Payment Systems breach. Now I see this on Banker’s Bank of Kansas, N.A web site: 02/17/09 – Two large data compromises affecting credit and debit cards were announced the weeks of 1/21/09 and 2/09/09. BBOK BankCard actively monitors all alerts…
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
Three charged with stealing identity of N.Y. man
Two men and a woman who allegedly stole the identity of a New York man and used it to rent a San Francisco townhouse and apply for credit cards in his name have been charged in San Francisco Superior Court with 24 felony counts, including identity theft and various drug offenses. Prosecutors say the group…