Sean Webby and Lisa Fernandez report: Santa Clara University’s academic records database was recently hacked to improve the grades of more than 60 former and current undergraduate students, the university announced Monday. The university called in the FBI, which is assisting in the ongoing investigation, according to university officials. No arrests have been reported. “We…
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(update) Chili’s credit card hacking scam reaches 330 victims
The Chili’s breach at a Japanese naval base has resulted in hundreds more victims than originally reported. Erik Slavin reports: A credit card hacking operation has now victimized at least 330 customers of Chili’s restaurant on Yokosuka Naval Base, Navy officials said Monday. The 330 victims have reported an estimated $190,000 in fraudulent charges to…
Brownsville Independent School District employees notified that their SSN and salary were exposed on the Internet
The following notice was posted on Brownsville (Texas) Independent School District web site: On Monday, November 7, 2011, Brownsville ISD was advised that the Social Security numbers of employees who are enrolled for disability insurance were inadvertently posted by prior department administration in April 2011 on the Employee Benefits/Risk Management (EB/RM) website; a site accessible…
When hackers turn on each other, Sunday edition
Getting kicked out of an IRC channel can be annoying. Really annoying, apparently. So much so that @theamericanlulz, who describes himself as a 16 year-old French hacker, dumped over 600 IRC nicks and corresponding IPs from anonops .net IRC on Pastebin with promises to get more people arrested. In a preamble to the data, he explains…
Want something to do in Providence at night? How about staying home and changing your password….
Another reported data leak posted to Pastebin – providencenightlife.net – reveals usernames, clear-text passwords, and e-mail addresses. Fifty thousand were reportedly acquired and posted to another site that requires you to fill out a survey to download the data. Since I don’t do surveys, I haven’t checked the full archive, but 83 are are offered…
USPS notified 5,400 online store customers after their data were inadvertently revealed to others
A few days ago, I received an inquiry from someone who had logged into her USPS online store account, only to see another customer’s name, address, and last four digits of their credit card number. Understandably concerned, she contacted customer service who told her that it was a “known error” and that letters would be…