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University of Northern Iowa doubts stolen laptop linked to ID theft

Posted on March 20, 2014 by Dissent

MacKenzie Elmer reports: A state audit found unencrypted laptops and portable devices that may store sensitive information at the University of Northern Iowa could pose a risk to the university, but UNI officials said there’s no evidence that’s the source of the mass identity theft that cropped up after employees filed their taxes this year….

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University of Maryland, College Park reports another cybersecurity breach

Posted on March 20, 2014 by Dissent

Carrie Wells reports: The University of Maryland, College Park has suffered another cyberattack on the heels of the recent theft of personal data on hundreds of thousands of students, staff and alumni, university officials announced Thursday. Ann G. Wylie, who is chairing a newly formed task force on cybersecurity, wrote in a note to the…

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IL: Hacker got to student records

Posted on March 20, 2014 by Dissent

Matt Mencarini reports: The hacker who compromised the Dixon Public Schools website, email accounts and Twitter account earlier this month was also able to access some student information. During the regular school board meeting Wednesday night, Superintendent Michael Juenger said the district sent a letter to parents letting them know about the additional compromised information,…

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Ca: 6,000 former high school students’ information exposed

Posted on March 14, 2014 by Dissent

Laura Cudworth reports: About 6,000 former high school students had personal information compromised after a staff member at the Avon Maitland District School Board transferred the files electronically. The board was alerted to the security breach, which lasted about five weeks, when a former student did a search of her own name and was able…

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University of Central Oklahoma discloses hack, notifying those affected

Posted on March 14, 2014 by Dissent

From their website (h/t, KFOR): Letter to the UCO Community – March 13, 2014 Dear UCO Community Member, On March 12, 2014, the University of Central Oklahoma discovered a breach of sensitive personal information due to unauthorized access to information stored on one of our servers. Some members of the university community are being directly…

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More University of Pittsburgh Medical Center employees report becoming tax refund fraud victims

Posted on March 12, 2014 by Dissent

Karen Zapf and Adam Brandolph report that as many as 322 UPMC employees have been affected by the breach, the system said last week. Read more on TribLive. Note that although the TribLive headline and story referred to this as a UPMC breach, I don’t think it’s actually been confirmed that UPMC had a breach,…

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