Maura Lerner reports: Metro State University is investigating a computer security breach that may have exposed personal information about students, faculty and staff. In a campuswide e-mail Friday, interim president Devinder Malhotra wrote that a computer hacker apparently got “unauthorized access” to the university database in mid-December, and that investigators are still trying to determine…
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UK hacker arrested over Xbox Live and PSN attacks
James Temperton reports: An 18-year-old man from Southport has been arrested as part of a police investigation into the attacks on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network over Christmas. Police said the man had been arrested under the computer misuse act. Read more on Wired (UK). BBC also provides coverage.
GA: Fulton County School officials are investigating a teen hacker
Donna Lowry reports: Fulton County School officials are investigating a teen who they believe hacked into his teachers’ emails for nine months. The district sent home a letter today to parents of students at North Springs Charter High School telling them that last year, a student gained access to the email login information for 21…
It’s not just Park ‘n Fly: OneStopParking also confirms data breach
Kentucky-based OneStopParking has also disclosed a data breach. You can read a copy of their notification letter to consumers on the Vermont Attorney General’s web site (pdf).
France sees 19,000 cyberattacks since terror rampage
Jamey Keaten and Sylvie Corbet of AP report: Hackers have targeted about 19,000 French websites since a rampage by Islamic extremists left 20 dead last week, a top French cyberdefense official said Thursday as the president tried to calm the nation’s inflamed religious tensions. Read more on Army Times.
British Hacker Linked To Attack On CENTCOM Twitter Feed
Mark Hosenball reports: The “CyberCaliphate” hacking group that attacked a Twitter account belonging to the Pentagon on Monday was founded by a Briton who was once jailed for hacking the personal address book of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, according to government sources and private sector security experts. U.S. and European government sources said…