Nicky Woolf reports: Four men have been charged with breaking into the computer systems of Microsoft, the US army and leading games manufacturers, as part of an alleged international hacking ring that netted more than $100m in intellectual property, the US Department of Justice said on Tuesday. The four, aged between 18 and 28, are…
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EPIC Urges FTC to Investigate Maricopa County Community Colleges Data Breach
Earlier this year, I reached out to the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), to encourage them to join DataBreaches.net in filing a complaint with the FTC concerning the massive data breach at Maricopa County Community Colleges District (MCCCD). I am pleased to see that they have done so, agreeing with me that MCCCD is covered by…
Second data breach hits Twin Cities Cub Foods stores
Clare Kennedy reports: Supervalu Inc. reported a second data breach, saying hackers infiltrated point of sale terminals at four Twin Cities Cub Foods grocery stores in late August or September. Customer credit card information may have been taken from the Hastings, Shakopee, Roseville (Har Mar Mall) and White Bear Lake stores. Read more on Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal….
Yet More IRS Employees Busted for Stealing Taxpayers’ Identities
J.D. Tuccille writes: It’s hard to keep up with the privacy-threatening shenanigans at the Internal Revenue Service, but let’s give it a try. Just days after revealing that the tax agency’s failure to follow its own rules put the private data of 1.4 million people at risk, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration publicized the…
We Take Your Privacy and Security. Seriously.
One of the things Brian Krebs and I seem to have in common is that you don’t want to have to send either of us a breach notification letter. Brian writes of his own recent experience with Cox, who wrote to him and 51 other customers: “On or about Aug. 13, 2014, “we learned that one…
Minnesota student loan data breach not criminal, review shows
Debra O’Connor reports: State computer experts found no evidence of criminal activity when private student data was exposed on the website of a student loan program, according to the Minnesota Office of Higher Education. “We did the big deep-dive security analysis and discovered, of all the log-ins to that site, there were only three that…