Letter from President Loh February 19, 2014 Dear students, faculty, and staff of the University of Maryland (at College Park and Shady Grove): Last evening, I was notified by Brian Voss, Vice President of Information Technology, that the University of Maryland was the victim of a sophisticated computer security attack that exposed records containing personal…
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Arizona law firm files notice of claim over Maricopa County Community College District breach; class-action lawsuit to follow?
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…
UK: Stradishall hacker Lauri Love re-bailed over the charge of hacking US Army and NASA computer systems
More on the Lauri Love case. Debra Fox reports: A baptist minister’s son charged with hacking into American computer systems has been re-bailed until May. Lauri Love, of Stradishall, was arrested in October last year under the Computer Misuse Act on suspicion of hacking into systems including those of the US Army and NASA. He…
Cost of Target data breach exceeds $200M so far just for card replacement-related costs for 22M customers
From the Credit Union National Association: Financial institutions continue to respond to the massive data breach at Target. According to data collected by the Consumer Bankers Association (CBA) and the Credit Union National Association the costs associated with the Target data breech (sic) exceed $200 million. CBA estimates the cost of card replacements for its members to have reached…
Hackers Show They’ve Stolen 828 Gb of Data from Systems of Las Vegas Sands
Eduard Kovacs reports: The hackers that (sic) breached and defaced the websites of several casinos owned by Las Vegas Sands Corp last week have published a video to demonstrate that they’ve stolen 828 Gb of files from the company’s systems. The data apparently stolen by the hacktivsts hasn’t been published online. They’ve only made the…
Global hackers hit Venezuelan government, servers ‘falling like dominoes’
Jeb Boone reports: Hackers around the world are setting their sights on Venezuela’s government web properties following violent repression against anti-government protesters and instances of internet censorship. Already, hacker groups have defaced, deleted and waged DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks on Venezuelan government and military sites. Spearheaded by South American Anons, as the hackers…