Karina Ioffee provides additional details on the CSU – East Bay breach reported yesterday: The intrusion on August 23, 2013 by an unknown person using malicious software was discovered August 11 during a routine security check by the university’s technology department, said Jeff Bliss, a university spokesman. Bliss said university IT workers found that there…
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More details start to emerge about Summit County Fair breach
Thanks to some solid reporting by David Burger, we now have some more details about the Summit County Fair data breach reported previously on this blog: The Federal Bureau of Investigation has joined the Summit County Sheriff’s Office in investigating a security breach that resulted from a third-party vendor selling tickets to two events at…
CSU- East Bay discloses data breach that went undiscovered for one year
Dennis Culver reports: California State University officials said today the university’s East Bay information security team has discovered a breach in a web server used to store personal employee information. Officials said the security breach occurred on Aug. 23, 2013 and was discovered Aug. 11 of this year. The university learned through the subsequent investigation…
WI: Personal information on city website
Holy screw-up, Batman! Shaun Dinck reports: Personal information from hundreds of property owners was available on the City of Beloit’s website, and the city doesn’t know for sure how long it was online. The information available was in the Document Center on the city’s website, and included Social Security numbers, dates of birth and possible…
Third-party vendor in Goodwill breach identified
idRADAR.com has uncovered an important detail in the Goodwill Industries breach – the identity of the third-party vendor. They report that it’s C&K Systems. Read more on idRADAR.com.
Update: CV officials: Specialist not 100 percent certain on hacker access to district files
An update to this breach: Cumberland Valley School District Friday continued to warn parents about a hacking incident after a forensic specialist concluded in a report that there is not a 100 percent guarantee that no confidential information was accessed. The information Friday stems from an incident on Aug. 21 in which district administration was…