Today February 21, 2014, Tadych’s Econofoods in Marquette, MI announced between January 8, 2014 and February 17, 2014 that various customers’ credit card and/or debit card information may have been compromised and obtained by an unauthorized person or criminal network. Individual card numbers and expiration dates may have been accessed – but not the cardholder’s…
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MCCCD IT Employees: ‘District knew about security concerns’
Within hours of DataBreaches.net reporting litigation against Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) and statements by employees claiming that MCCCD is attempting to cover up its lax security by blaming employees, two (other) employees have started publicly revealing more details. Greg Argos of CBS5 (KPHO) reports that the two have come forward with documents to support their…
University of Maryland discloses data breach involving 309,079 records (Update 2)
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…
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…