Hannah Johnson reports: No files or personal information was compromised in the Feb. 7 North Dakota University System server breach, officials said at the State Board of Higher Education meeting Thursday. Lisa Feldner, the vice chancellor for IT and institutional research, said the breach did not gain access to ConnectND, which stores student records, or…
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KR: Stolen data on 25 million used in attack on Naver
Kim Young-won reports: A 31-year-old was recently booked by the police for infiltrating the accounts of 25 million people on Naver, the nation’s largest Web portal. According to the National Police Agency on Wednesday, the suspect, surnamed Seo, purchased the private information of 25 million people from a Korean-Chinese in August this year. Seo then…
MN: El Agave Mexican Restaurant hacked; over 200 customers report card fraud
Associated Press reports that there have been over 200 reports of card fraud by customers who used payment cards at a Fairmont, Minnesota restaurant, El Agave Mexican Restaurant. Officials believe a point-of-sale hack took place at the restaurant. Yesterday, El Agave posted this on their Facebook page: HELLO!! we wanna thank everyone for the support we’re…
Pointer: Senate Commerce report on Target data breach
The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation released its report, “A “Kill Chain” Analysis of the 2013 Target Data Breach.” The report was prepared by the majority staff for Chairman Rockefeller.
Cerberus notifies users to reset paswords after some users’ usernames and encrypted passwords accessed
Email sent to Cerebus App users today (confirmed by Cerebus): Hi [username], Our Security Team recently discovered and blocked suspicious activity on Cerberus servers. The investigation found no evidence that your account was in any way accessed or compromised. However, the attacker(s) were able to gain access to usernames and encrypted passwords for a subset of…
How big was the Sally Beauty breach?
Although Sally Beauty acknowledges that 25,000 payment cards may have been compromised in a recently disclosed breach, Brian Krebs challenges their statement by analyzing the zip codes of card data up for sale on an underground market, rescator.so. You can read his analysis here, but the short version is that Brian speculates that all Sally Beauty…