Through their lawyers, Nova Southeastern University (NSU) in Texas notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that they learned of a data security incident that involved potential access to a server that contained former law students’ personal information, including names, dates of birth, postal and email addresses, telephone numbers, NSU identification numbers, and Social Security…
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Westlaw discloses breach of public records database
West Publishing Corporation, a unit of Thomson Reuters, has notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office of a breach involving their Westlaw subscription-only public records database. In a letter dated November 4th to those affected, Senior Vice President Andy Martens explained that on October 14, they detected unusual search activity. Investigation revealed that some subscribers’…
Yet another Experian breach
Oh, look. Yet another Experian breach. On November 3, Experian notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that Merchants Capital Access‘s login credentials to Experian’s credit-reporting database had been misused by an unknown party. Two New Hampshire residents were notified of the breach that occurred between October 20 and October 21. The total number affected was not…
Two Tennessee blokes use default ATM codes to steal over $400,000
Delwyn Pinto reports: When a small-time Tennessee restaurateur named Khaled Abdel Fattah was running short of cash he went to an ATM machine. Actually, according to federal prosecutors, he went to a lot of them. Over 18 months, he visited a slew of small kiosk ATMs around Nashville and withdrew a total of more than…
Rex Mundi surfaces with new hack claims (UPDATE2)
It looks like hacking group Rex Mundi may be back. And they seem to be dumping all of the Domino’s data they claimed to have hacked back in June, plus data allegedly from hacks of Thomas Cook Belgium, Finalease Car Credit, and Mensura. In a paste describing their activities, they write that they stole “personal records belonging…
Chino Latino and Burger Jones hit by data breach
Clare Kennedy reports: Diners at Chino Latino in Minneapolis and Burger Jones in Burnsville may have had credit and debit card information stolen by hackers, owner Parasole Restaurant Holdings said. The intrusion affected about 5 percent of credit and debit transactions from January until July, when the Edina-based restaurant group became aware of the intrusion, according to a news release. Read…