Student records from Pueblo Community College, including Social Security numbers, were found by a Pueblo woman in a box of office supplies purchased at a South Side yard sale last summer in Pueblo. Read more on Pueblo Chieftain (sub. req. for full access).
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U. of Arizona law school notifying over 9,000 former students and applicants whose SSN may have been accessed by hacker
You won’t find it on their home page, but if you dig into the U. of Arizona‘s web site, you’ll find this notice, posted today: Personal information of certain former law students and applicants to the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law may have been exposed after being stored on a server…
Breach at PR Newswire Tied to Adobe Hack
Brian Krebs reports: Earlier this year, hackers broke into the networks of marketing and press release distribution service PR Newswire, making off with usernames and encrypted passwords that customers use to access the company’s service and upload news releases, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. The stolen data was found on the same Internet servers that housed huge troves of…
Man charged in TSYS identity theft violated computer policy at Paragon Benefits
“If you see something, say something” paid off in this case. Adam Carlson reports: A week after he was placed at Paragon Benefits Inc. by a temporary staffing agency, Drew Johnson appeared to be spending more time on his computer than his duties required before personal information from more than 5,200 TSYS employees was sent…
Datapak notifies customers that malware may have been capturing their credit card information since March (Update4)
Datapak Services Corporation, an order fulfillment and payment processor based in Swanee, Georgia, recently learned that malware placed on their system on March 5 may have compromised the credit card information of customers of “several” e-commerce web sites. In a letter dated October 3, they note that customers’ names, addresses, and card numbers with expiration…
Company responsible for MPS social security mistake explains
Last week, John Cuoco reported that approximately 6,000 Milwaukee Public School District employees found their Social Security numbers exposed in plain view on mailings due to an error by a third party vendor providing prescription drug coverage for MPS Medicare D recipients. Yesterday, he updated his reporting to identify the vendor: The Milwaukee Public School District…