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WVSU email accounts ‘compromised’ earlier this year

Posted on June 21, 2016 by Dissent

Jake Jarvis reports: Two-dozen student email addresses at West Virginia State University were “compromised” earlier this year, but the students weren’t told that someone else might have gotten into their accounts. WVSU’s information technology department received a list in March of about 1,600 email addresses. The person who sent the list said they had been…

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Equifax service remains mum about client reports of tax refund fraud

Posted on June 20, 2016 by Dissent

Back in April, DataBreaches.net noted that Stanford University was notifying its employees about tax refund fraud.  The fraud appeared to result from perpetrators downloading employees’ W-2 information from the university’s vendor, W-2 Express, and then using the info to file fraudulent returns. W-2 information typically includes an employee’s name and address, their wage and salary information, as well…

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Almost 3 years after malware compromise, U. Conn notifies some of those affected

Posted on June 15, 2016 by Dissent

No good news ever begins this way: We are writing to inform you of a data security-related incident that may have involved your personal information. On March 9, 2015, Information Technology (IT) staff in the School of Engineering detected that malicious software, or “malware,” had been placed on a number of servers that are part…

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University of Calgary paid $20K in ransomware attack on faculty and staff email

Posted on June 7, 2016 by Dissent

CBC News reports: The University of Calgary paid a demanded $20,000 after a “ransomware” cyberattack on its computer systems. The university announced the ransom payment Tuesday, a week after the initial attack. “As part of efforts to maintain all options to address these systems issues, the university has paid a ransom totalling about $20,000 Cdn that was…

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Defunct undergrad law society site exposed hundreds of SSNs

Posted on June 4, 2016 by Dissent

Penn State University recently reported an incident to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that involves a now-defunct club. According to their report, the university was notified on April 13 that a historical document uploaded to the Undergraduate Law Society‘s web site was a spreadsheet that contained two fields – SSN and DOB – that…

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WA: Northshore School District students receive emails with inappropriate messages

Posted on May 31, 2016 by Dissent

Janet Kim reports: The Northshore School District is updating parents that student’s emails were not hacked, instead were spammed after first warning parents that an outsider gained access to student emails. Now students are locked out of their emails with just weeks left in the school year, as the district investigates this serious security breach….

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