Robert Salonga reports: San Jose State University officials are denying a computer hacker’s claims he stole a wealth of sensitive personal data from its largest student-run campus enterprise. Monday, a hacker going by “S1ngularity” announced via Twitter that he infiltrated a server for the Associated Students of SJSU, a student-run nonprofit that oversees a host…
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University of Florida notifies former law students about privacy breach
This sounds very much like the incident University of North Florida reported last month, but it’s a new/separate announcement from the University of Florida: University of Florida officials are notifying 220 former law school students and applicants who had sought a roommate online in the early 2000s through the Levin College of Law that their Social Security…
CA: USC warns of credit card security breach on campus
Students and staff at USC are being advised to check their credit card statements for unauthorized charges after a security breach was discovered at some campus food outlets, including dining halls and a Starbucks. A letter was posted on the university’s website Thursday detailing the recently identified security breach affecting credit card purchases made at…
TN: Montgomery County Schools ‘turn the corner’ after hacking
Adam Tamburin reports: The school system is set to spend $167,000 so far to respond to a security breach that resulted in the release of Social Security numbers belonging to past and present students and employees. That money has been split between $87,000 for software and hardware and $80,000 for experts’ analysis of the breached…
ThePartsBin.com notifies customers of breach
ThePartsBin.com (U.S. Auto Parts Network, Inc) notified California of a breach that compromised customers’ credit card information. According to their notification, the breach occurred between April 9, 2012, and June 12, 2012.
MN: Roseville police probe suspected ID theft at Rosedale restaurant
Emily Gumon reports: Roseville police are investigating what they believe to be an identity theft and credit-card skimming operation at the Chinese Gourmet Express restaurant in the Rosedale Center mall. Several customers of the mall and employees at other stores there reported their personal credit or debit card numbers had been stolen and used fraudulently…