Ashkan Soltani, Julie Tate and Ellen Nakashima report: The personal information of almost 100,000 people seeking their high school transcripts was recently exposed on a Web site that helps students obtain their records. The site, NeedMyTranscript.com, facilitates requests from all 50 states and covers more than 18,000 high schools around the country, according to its Web…
Category: Breach Incidents
KR: Personal data of 7.45 million Pandora TV users accessed by hackers
Yikes. How did I miss this one? On October 15, Yonhap News reported: South Korea’s video sharing web operator Pandora TV Co. said Wednesday more than 114,000 items of personal data were leaked from its webpage while hackers accessed some 7.45 million items of private information. […] The leaked data includes user names, names, encoded…
Three Atlanta federal judges recuse themselves from Home Depot data breach lawsuits
David Allison reports: Some of the lawsuits hitting The Home Depot Inc. over its recent data breach are apparently hitting too close to home for some federal judges in Atlanta. Home Depot (NYSE: HD) is facing at least 21 lawsuits stemming from the data breach, which reportedly may affect 60 million customers. More than a dozen of the lawsuits…
Japan’s gov’t mulls beefing up regulations on exchange of personal data among database firms
Mainichi reports: The government is considering tightening regulations on the exchange of personal data among database firms, after a systems engineer allegedly stole a massive amount of customer information from correspondence education provider Benesse Holdings Inc. and sold it to three database companies. According to investigative sources, over 200 million customer data entries were leaked…
Fort Hays State University experiences data breach
Molly Hadfield reports: A warning tonight for some Fort Hays State Graduates, after the college learned some personal information was compromised. Fort Hays State University said it was security breach online that led personal information and social security numbers of 138 former students to be available on the internet. The university says it was an…
JPMorgan email notification to customers
Well, I nearly trashed this email as spam because the sender showed as “Gregory Quental,” with a subject line “Important update on cyber security.” I’m glad I looked at it, though, as it was a message from JPMorgan about their breach: As you may know, Chase recently was the victim of a sophisticated cyber attack….