Zach Fridell reports that the Steamboat Springs School District is offering reduced price credit monitoring to about 900 former employees whose Social Security numbers were on laptop that was stolen last week. At least some former employees are unhappy with the offer, particularly since the district is picking up the tab for current employees. Although…
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Bits ‘n Pieces (update 1)
In the criminal justice system: A Baldwin woman who used to work for CitiBank will now spend two years in prison for aggravated identity theft and bank fraud. A federal judge in Jacksonville handed down 26-year-old Isla Brumfield’s sentence Thursday. According to court documents, Brumfield had worked in the Customer Service Sales Department at CitiBank….
CO: Stolen computer contained 1,300 Social Security numbers
Zach Fridell reports: Ten years’ worth of Social Security numbers for 1,300 past and present employees was compromised Tuesday night when a laptop was stolen from the Steamboat Springs School District office. Read more on Steamboat Today & Pilot
Ca: Ryerson software error exposes limited amount of personal information
Ryerson University today initiated a plan to notify individuals whose personal information may have been exposed due to an isolated software error discovered in the University’s Student Administration System (SAS) which went live with an upgrade on November 17, 2008. Ryerson became aware of the incident when three students voluntarily contacted the University and provided…
How many strikes before they’re out?
A tip of my cap to Jai Vijayan of Computerworld, who in the process of digging into the second recent University of Florida breach realized that the university had had a third breach in the past three months that hadn’t made the media. Three breaches in three months sounds pretty bad, but it sounds even…
Del Mar students informed of stolen info
Mike Baird reports: As many as 53 students in the Del Mar College General Education Development Program have been informed that a printed class roster, with some of the student’s personal information, was stolen from an instructor’s vehicle Sunday, school officials announced today. Read more on caller.com