Joe Lazzarotti writes: Government contractors have a wide range of unique challenges (find out more about these here), not the least of which is data security. A good example is the interim rule the Department of Defense (DoD) issued last month that implements sections of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 2013 and…
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UK: Bank details of thousands of Lloyds’s customers stolen from insurer
Hilary Osborne reports: Bank details of thousands of Lloyds Premier account customers have been taken from an insurer, and customers have been warned to take out cover against fraud. Some Premier Banking customers who had emergency cover from Royal Sun Alliance (RSA) through their paid-for accounts between 2006 and 2012 have been told that personal…
What did CSU do to verify vendors’ data security – and what might FTC do?
When California State University decided to purchase a We End Violence program, Agent of Change, they reportedly did consider data security. The Press-Telegram reports: Laurie Weidner, spokeswoman for the Chancellor’s Office, said CSU has not terminated its relationship with We End Violence, which administered the training program called Agent of Change. The vendor was one of…
More TransformPOS clients possibly affected by security incident? (updated)
Here we go….? On Sept. 1, this blog noted a breach involving a TransformPOS client in Illinois. The client, Village Pizza & Pub, says they learned of the breach on July 27th. Now there may be other, possibly related breach reports in Wisconsin. Negassi Tesfamichael of The Daily Cardinal (a U. Wisconsin-Madison student publication) reports: The UW-Madison Police Department…
79K Calif. State U. students affected by We End Violence breach
Earlier today, this site noted that We End Violence was notifying students of a breach involving the AgentOfChange.net web site. Now Josh Dulaney reports: A security breach through a third-party software vendor exposed the personal data of 79,000 California State University students at eight campuses, CSU officials said Tuesday. The CSU Chancellor’s Office in Long…
San Diego-based Agent of Change notifying students that personal and sensitive information accessed by hackers
We End Violence LLC is notifying an unspecified number of students that their personal information may be in the hands of hackers after the Agent of Change web site was accessed by unauthorized individual(s). The compromised personal information includes gender identity, ethnicity, relationship status, sexual identity, and other personally identifiable information. Here is their notice:…