Tim Gallen and Mike Sunnucks report: The Maricopa County Community College District is notifying nearly 2.5 million students, former students, vendors and employees because their personal information may have been exposed in a security breach. The Tempe-based college district announced today that it is contacting 2.49 million students, employees and suppliers that their information may…
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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…
Update: Arrest in Sachem schools data breach (update1)
There has been another development in a data breach involving the Sachem Central School District on Long Island (previous coverage here and here). As I commented previously, it sounded to me like they suspected an insider breach but it wasn’t clear if it was an employee or a student hacker they suspected. Well, now we…
Scannable VA cards put veterans at risk of identity theft
From the FFS department: Jackie Calloway reports: Anyone with a smartphone and a bar code app can scan any VA identification card issued since 2004 and the cardholder’s Social Security number immediately pops up on the screen. Tampa businessman and Army veteran Barry Landau wants answers. “I didn’t think that was possible.” Landau said. “The…
FBI warns of U.S. government breaches by Anonymous hackers
The Department of Energy hack noted previously on this blog may be part of a larger and longer campaign against government agencies by members of Anonymous who exploited an Adobe vulnerability. At least that’s what an FBI memo seen by Reuters seems to suggest: The hackers exploited a flaw in Adobe Systems Inc’s software to…
Hack of MacRumors forums exposes password data for 860,000 users
Dan Goodin reports: MacRumors user forums have been breached by hackers who may have acquired cryptographically protected passwords belonging to all 860,000 users, one of the top editors of the news website said Tuesday evening. Read more on Ars Technica and, to be on the safe side, change your password for the forum and for any other…