Seen at VOCM: Files containing student information at the Faculty of Business at Memorial University may have been accessed by an unauthorized party earlier this week. As a result, all confidential information was secured on a different server, and, as a precaution, websites for the faculty and the Gardiner Centre were taken offline. Files containing…
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Some Bellacor customers who ordered online notified of security breach
Home lighting and furnishings retailer Bellacor has notified some of its web site customers of a recent breach. In their letter , a copy of which was posted on California’s breach report site, President and CEO James Lawrence informed those affected that their names, addresses, telephone numbers, and encrypted credit card numbers with security codes…
Woman sentenced in $9 million ATM hacking
A participant in the November, 2008 WorldPay hack that resulted in $9 million run on ATM machines was just sentenced this week. Read about it on AJC.
SC: 34,000 exposed in U. South Carolina breach
Andrew Shain reports: The University of South Carolina said today that confidential information about 34,000 people could have been exposed in a hacker attack on the College of Education’s web server. The school said it discovered the breach on June 6. No evidence was found that the hackers accessed every record on this server, but…
UK: Children’s private and sensitive records leaked on internet from Independent Schools Guide site
Jason Lewis reports: Sensitive Information about hundreds of children, including details of their behavioural problems, has been leaked on the internet after an alleged cyber attack on a company advising parents about applying for top independent schools. The security breach led to the publication of 1,367 private records, including the names and addresses of pupils…
Road Runner Safe Storage’s Security Breach (updated)
Seen on dslreports.com: “Dear Customer, We are writing to inform you of a recent security incident involving your Road Runner Safe Storage account, which may have exposed your password. Recently, an unauthorized third party accessed one of our databases. As soon as we learned of the attack, we limited all access to the database and…