KVUE reports that after receiving complaints from guests about fraudulent charges on their credit or debit cards, hotel security at the Stephen F. Austin Hotel managed to catch an employee skimming hotel guests’ cards. The hotel released the following statement Monday afternoon: “InterContinental Stephen F. Austin holds the safety, comfort and well-being of all guests and…
Category: Breach Incidents
Update to UCLA Dept. of Psychology breach
On Saturday, I had noted a breach involving the UCLA Department of Psychology and had tried to alert the department to the breach. They never responded to my notification. Today, the student paper reports the breach. Their report suggests that the university may already have been aware of it before I tried to notify them….
Virginia Commonwealth University Breach results in data of 170k people leaked
Virginia Commonwealth University will hire an outside cybersecurity consultant to examine its information technology system after a computer server containing personal data on 176,567 people was hacked last month. The university has "very good forensic evidence" that the information was not accessed or targeted for identity theft, said Mark D. Willis, VCU’s chief information officer….
Census Bureau Opens Research Laboratory in Atlanta
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Center for Economic Studies at the U.S. Census Bureau, in partnership with a consortium of institutions including the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Georgia State University, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Emory University, the Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of Georgia and the University of Alabama at Birmingham, has opened a research data…
CyberPatriot Welcomes MIT Lincoln Laboratory as New Sponsor
ARLINGTON, Va., Nov. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Air Force Association (AFA) today announced that MIT Lincoln Laboratory has joined the list of prestigious sponsors supporting AFA’s education initiative, CyberPatriot, the national high school cyber security competition. MIT Lincoln Laboratory is a federally funded research and development center that applies advanced technology to problems of national security….
National Commission of Physical Culture and Sport hacked and accounts leaked
Just another from SEC404, its a few days old by will post for archive reasons. This one comes from another Mexican government website, National Commission of Physical Culture and Sport. the leak contains usernames/emails and encrypted passwords. https://pastebin.com/isBjTgmH