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Abingdon Avon employee arrested a month after a data breach

Posted on June 23, 2016 by Dissent

There’s a follow-up to an investigation noted previously on this site. KWQC reports that the he Abingdon-Avon School District’s IT Director has been arrested just a month after the district revealed it was investigating an employee for a data breach impacting student grades and grade point averages (GPAs). Court records show Mark L. Rodgers is charged with…

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Ca: Personal information in 100,000 IT requests compromised in Simon Fraser University database misconfiguration

Posted on June 23, 2016 by Dissent

Corneilia Naylor reports that Simon Fraser University has self-disclosed that they left a lot of personal information on an unsecured database. Good for them for discovering it and disclosing it, although of course we wish it had never happened or had been discovered sooner. On Jan. 27, 2016, SFU IT services inadvertently copied incidents, inquiries and…

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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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