Carrie Wells reports: The University of Maryland, College Park has suffered another cyberattack on the heels of the recent theft of personal data on hundreds of thousands of students, staff and alumni, university officials announced Thursday. Ann G. Wylie, who is chairing a newly formed task force on cybersecurity, wrote in a note to the…
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ZA: SANRAL resets passwords but doesn’t confirm any breach
After a hacker revealed a vulnerability in the SANRAL website that exposed customer information in January, SANRAL denied it was hacked. Today, they’ve notified registered e-toll users of a password reset, but claim that they still have no evidence of a hack. According to BusinessTech: ETC, the company running the system, told BusinessTech that its…
IL: Hacker got to student records
Matt Mencarini reports: The hacker who compromised the Dixon Public Schools website, email accounts and Twitter account earlier this month was also able to access some student information. During the regular school board meeting Wednesday night, Superintendent Michael Juenger said the district sent a letter to parents letting them know about the additional compromised information,…
Australian charged with hacking US gaming network (updated)
Kristian Silva reports that a Queensland man accused of hacking a US-based video game company’s computer network has been charged after a joint investigation between local police and the FBI. But wait, there’s not much more that they can report, it seems: For privacy reasons police said they couldn’t release the name of the video game company…
Payroll processor hack affects at least two clients’ employees
The breach at payroll processor BenefitMall (formerly Compupay) that affected Kenerson Associates also affected the Tribeca Film Institute, according to this notification to the Maryland Attorney General’s Office and to affected employees. If anyone sees other notifications from other affected clients, please let me know and I’ll add them here.
EA Games website hacked to steal Apple IDs
Netcraft reports: An EA Games server has been compromised by hackers and is now hosting a phishing site which targets Apple ID account holders. The compromised server is used by two websites in the ea.com domain, and is ordinarily used to host a calendar based onWebCalendar 1.2.0. This version was released in September 2008 and contains several security vulnerabilities…