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Jail time for university hacker who changed his grades to straight As

Posted on February 28, 2014 by Dissent

John Hawes reports: A former student of Purdue University in Indiana has been sentenced to 90 days in jail for his part in hacking into college computer systems and changing grades. Roy C. Sun is one of three former Purdue students thought to have been involved in the incident, which occurred between 2008 and 2010 when they…

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IA: ID Theft: University Professors Victims

Posted on February 28, 2014 by Dissent

More than 50 employees at the University of Northern Iowa may have had their identities stolen. One professor says when he went to file his taxes, someone had already filed in his name. The university says when it got eight or nine similar cases it made them take notice. Now the IRS and Division of…

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University of Maryland revises offer of free credit monitoring to five years, creates cybersecurity task force

Posted on February 25, 2014 by Dissent

The University of Maryland has lengthened the time of free credit monitoring it will offer to the hundreds of thousands of people whose personal information was compromised during a data breach. President Wallace Loh said in a statement posted Tuesday on the university’s website that those affected will be offered five years of free credit…

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Indiana University notifying 146,000 current & former students that details were accessed by webcrawlers over 11-month period

Posted on February 25, 2014 by Dissent

Indiana University issued the following statement today: Indiana University notified the Indiana attorney general’s office today of the potential exposure of personal data for some students and recent graduates. The data potentially at risk for disclosure includes names, addresses and Social Security numbers for approximately 146,000 students and recent graduates across seven IU campuses who…

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MCCCD IT Employees: ‘District knew about security concerns’

Posted on February 19, 2014 by Dissent

Within hours of DataBreaches.net reporting litigation against Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) and statements by employees claiming that MCCCD is attempting to cover up its lax security by blaming employees, two (other) employees have started publicly revealing more details. Greg Argos of CBS5 (KPHO) reports that the two have come forward with documents to support their…

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University of Maryland discloses data breach involving 309,079 records (Update 2)

Posted on February 19, 2014 by Dissent

Letter from President Loh February 19, 2014 Dear students, faculty, and staff of the University of Maryland (at College Park and Shady Grove): Last evening, I was notified by Brian Voss, Vice President of Information Technology, that the University of Maryland was the victim of a sophisticated computer security attack that exposed records containing personal…

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