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Arizona law firm files notice of claim over Maricopa County Community College District breach; class-action lawsuit to follow?

Posted on February 19, 2014 by Dissent

I’m somewhat surprised this took so long. Back in October, I blogged about a breach involving the Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) in Arizona. The breach involved sensitive information such as names, birth dates, Social Security numbers and bank account information of 2.49 million students, former students, vendors and employees.  Judging by the almost 100 comments in…

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Breach at Texas State Technical College may have affected employees and former Waco students

Posted on February 15, 2014 by Dissent

Regina Dennis reports: Texas State Technical College is trying to track down hundreds of former students after learning that an Internet server breach last month could have included their personal identification information. TSTC information technology specialists on Jan. 30 discovered that someone attempted to illegally access a server that contained personal information for the nearly…

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TD Bank offers UNH students credit monitoring services after e-mail security lapse (update)

Posted on February 14, 2014 by Dissent

TD Bank is a service provider for the University of New Hampshire. On January 16, an employee e-mailed a file containing 674 students’ names and bank account numbers to the university, but failed to e-mail them in adherence with security protocols. The recipient notified the bank immediately.  The university maintains the bank account numbers of…

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Update on Midland ISD data theft

Posted on February 6, 2014 by Dissent

In the wake of the Midland ISD breach where 14,000 current and former students’ information was on hard drive stolen from an administrator’s car, I asked: Was the administrator violating any established policy or was there no policy in place that says, “Hey, dummy, don’t leave PII lying around?” It turns out there really wasn’t any…

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MI: Hacker steals teacher’s direct deposit paycheck: University says too bad so sad

Posted on February 5, 2014 by Dissent

Darlene Storm reports: No matter how much you love your job, very few people work for free. About 80% of Americans receive their paychecks via direct deposit, but if a hacker manages to reroute your paycheck to his or her account, is that just tough luck and you don’t get paid? That’s basically what a…

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TX: 14,000 Midland ISD students risk identity theft because of sloppy security

Posted on February 4, 2014 by Dissent

From the oh-FFS-dept.: AP reports: The identity information of 14,000 past and present Midland Independent School District students has been compromised by a computer theft. Midland school Superintendent Ryder Warren says a laptop computer and external hard drive containing the information was stolen from the back of a district administrator’s car on Jan. 23. He…

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