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Commentary: Is WellPoint blaming others for breach?

Posted on June 29, 2010 by Dissent

Steve Ragan has a statement from WellPoint that he posted on Tech Herald. While the company doesn’t deny that the actual cause of the exposure was a faulty security update, from there, it reads as if they are pointing fingers everywhere but at themselves. WellPoint mentions the role of the plaintiff’s attorney(s): The reason that…

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UMaine students who sought mental health services’ data compromised

Posted on June 29, 2010 by Dissent

The University of Maine police department is investigating a data breach of which has lead to the exposure of personal and medical information of almost 5,000 students between the summer of 2002 and this past week. According to a press release from the university, the servers which have been breached were the ones that stored…

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NY: Going hack to school

Posted on June 29, 2010 by Dissent

Rebecca Harshbarger andYoav Gonen report: It was a technical foul. Hackers accessed the personal information of more than 2,400 Brooklyn Tech HS students and posted it on the school’s Web site, The Post has learned. The startling security breach put students’ names, addresses and birth dates — and, in many cases, their Social Security numbers…

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OU Reports Virus, Security Breach

Posted on June 29, 2010 by Dissent

The University of Oklahoma is warning students about a security breach that may put their personal information at risk. The university said its Information Technology department noticed unusual Internet activity on a laptop computer associated with its network. It said it determined the computer belonged to an employee and was infected with a virus known…

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CT: RHS Computer Security Breach

Posted on June 29, 2010 by Dissent

The following is a letter from Ridgefield High School Principal Jeff Jaslow and Superintendent Deborah Low, dated June 21, that was dispersed in the high school’s PTSA e-blast on Monday evening. Dear RHS students and families, We are sorry to report that recently there was a security breach of our RHS computer system. The students…

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SC: Private Information Found In Greer Dumpster

Posted on June 29, 2010 by Dissent

WSPA in South Carolina reports that a consumer tipped them that a dumpster was filled with sensitive personal and financial information. The story doesn’t name the business, but the video coverage names it as Merrimack Mortgage:

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