Lori Pilger reports a follow-up to a breach previously noted on this blog: The 23-year-old former student indicted in connection to a computer security breach at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln last year pleaded guilty Tuesday. Daniel Stratman, who lives in Omaha now and works for an IT company, had faced a dozen counts in an…
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Made In Oregon customers warned of data breach (update2)
Mike Benner reports on KGW: When it comes to Oregon’s delicacies there is not much that Made In Oregon does not sell. Its warehouse in Northeast Portland is stocked with everything you can imagine. “These shelves will be empty by December 18,” said company vice president Verne Naito. This is the busiest time of the year for…
Vodafone Iceland breached, customer details, SMSes stolen
Michael Lee reports: Vodafone Iceland is now in the middle of an investigation into how its website was attacked and customer data information, including SMS messages, were leaked to the public. On November 30, the company’s Icelandic website was defaced by attackers and subsequently taken offline. At the time, Vodafone did not believe that any…
Maricopa Colleges waited 7 months to notify 2.4 million students of data breach
Mary Beth Faller reports some interesting details about the Maricopa Community Colleges breach noted previously on this blog: The Maricopa County Community College District waited seven months to notify 2.4 million current and former students and employees that their academic or personal data were compromised in an April security breach. […] The FBI notified the…
Yoke’s, Rosauers urge customers to not use cards amid network hack
Tom Sowa reports: Some Spokane-area grocery stores, including all 12 Yoke’s Fresh Markets and 21 Rosauers stores, are telling customers that debit and credit card payments won’t be processed normally while investigators try to secure a computer network that was hacked over the past two months. The data breach was reported in recent weeks by local…
Evernote tells some users to change their passwords. (Psst! It’s Adobe’s fault…)
Graham Cluley writes: Just like Facebook before it, Evernote has been scouring the list of millions of email addresses and passwords exposed by the recent mega-breach at Adobe. And, if Evernote finds an email address in Adobe’s breached database that matches that belonging to an Evernote user, they are sending them a message telling them to…