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NC: Guidance counselor steals students’ info in $400K Medicaid scam

Posted on June 8, 2017 by Dissent

Carla Field reports: A man who was a public school guidance counselor and who owned a counseling service admitted in court Wednesday to using information about some of his elementary school students in a $400,0000 Medicare scam. Joseph Frank Korzelius, 46, of Tryon, North Carolina, pleaded guilty to health care fraud. Korzelius, who owns Western…

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UCF seeks to dismiss computer hack lawsuit

Posted on June 7, 2017 by Dissent

Gabrielle Russon has an update on breach litigation involving the University of Central Florida. The University of Central Florida is seeking dismissal of a lawsuit filed by five people whose Social Security numbers were compromised in the school’s data hack last year. In February 2016, UCF revealed there was a security breach involving 63,000 current and…

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Over a thousand Elon accounts compromised in OneLogin security breach

Posted on June 3, 2017 by Dissent

Rachel Ellis reports: An e-mail was sent out earlier this morning that instructed all Elon faculty members to reset their Elon password immediately. Christopher Waters, the Assistant Vice President for Technology and the Chief Information Officer of the University, notified staff members that their Elon e-mail would be automatically disabled if passwords were not changed…

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How we hacked more than 10,000 user accounts at the University of Amsterdam

Posted on June 3, 2017 by Dissent

I seem to have missed this one a few weeks ago, but this post on Auke Zwaan is definitely worth noting: Last year, Bram ter Borch (a fellow student of the Master System and Network Engineering at the University of Amsterdam) and I did a security review of the Blackboard implementation at the University of…

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University of Alaska: thousands affected by data breach, including names, social security numbers

Posted on June 2, 2017 by Dissent

KTUU reports: Approximately 25,000 students, staff, and faculty members associated with the University of Alaska were affected following a successful phishing scam and subsequent data breach late last year. The University of Alaska sent out letters to those people who had their names and accompanying social security numbers exposed to “an individual or individuals unknown…

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AU: Camberwell High School becomes second target of major privacy breach in two weeks

Posted on May 30, 2017 by Dissent

Ebony Bowden reports: Police are investigating a second major privacy breach at a Melbourne high school which saw the personal information of families illegally accessed by a student. The breach at Camberwell High School follows a similar but unrelated incident at Blackburn High School two weeks ago where the personal information of families was illegally…

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