Katrina Webber reports: The Northside Independent School District has sent letters to about 23,000 former and current students and employees regarding a security breach that might have put their personal information at risk. NISD spokesman Barry Perez said school district officials first got a hint about the trouble in August when it was discovered that…
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NH DHHS commissioner apologizes to families receiving breach notifications for deceased relatives
AP reports that New Hampshire’s health commissioner is offering an extra apology as his agency deals with a data breach that led to personal information of up to 15,000 people being posted online. The extra apology follows recent media coverage describing the emotional reaction of a woman who received a letter addressed to her son…
OH: Hilliard Bradley High School hacked, students’ information exposed
Tyler Carter reports: Officials say students’ private information was exposed at Hilliard Bradley High School. Authorities say two students are to blame. Court documents state that a student at Hilliard Bradley High School hacked into a school computer and stole other students’ login information. Read more on NBC4. The report cites the police as saying…
UK: Derbyshire computer hacker who broke into a company’s emails is now helping it get secure
Kit Sandeman reports that a 24-year-old man from London who was arrested after targeting an unnamed organization in Derbyshire has been given a “restorative justice” option: The man admitted accessing email accounts by using information found on social media sites such as LinkedIn and Facebook to identify targets, and bypass their security questions. This then…
2016 goes out with a hack as thedarkoverlord dumps more data
At 00:00 UTC, TheDarkOverlord issued a “press release.” Depending on where you reside, it made for a bad end to 2016, which was already a pretty terrible year for breaches, or a rotten start to 2017. Several days ago, DataBreaches.net reported on several hacks TheDarkOverlord (TDO) had announced. As expected, TDO has now dumped more data from…
KeepKey notifies customers of security incident, offers 30 BTC reward for tips leading to attacker’s arrest
KeepKey, a hardware bitcoin wallet, has disclosed how a brief compromise of the company phone and email enabled the attacker to reset some account passwords. Here’s how KeepKey responded to the attack and the attacker: A Message from the Founder About Email Breach Our guiding principle at KeepKey is building open and transparent products for our most…