California Virtual Academies (CAVA) is a network of 11 publicly funded charter k-12 schools in California. Researcher Chris Vickery recently contacted DataBreaches.net after he found a database with 58,694 of their students’ records leaking. In addition to a lot of personal information on the students that was all in plain text, the leaking data included some information on student…
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OPM Gives Green Light to Start Submitting Data Breach Verification Requests
Ian Smith reports that if you think you were impacted by the OPM data breach but haven’t received a notification letter, you can submit a verification request through a government web site: The Office of Personnel Management has completed mailing notification letters to roughly 93% of individuals whose Social Security Number and other personal information was…
Oh what a tangled web they wove…
Peter Strozniak asks a question many should be asking: how did this go on for so long without being detected? One of New Jersey’s smallest credit unions was directly connected to a sprawling criminal enterprise that led to the largest customer data theft case in history, which involved the nation’s biggest bank, according to court…
OR: Northwest Primary Care Notifies 5,372 Patients of Insider Data Theft
Northwest Primary Care (NWPC) is notifying certain patients about a security incident involving information that was stolen by a former employee. On October 13, 2015, NWPC was informed by law enforcement that the employee stole patient names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and credit card numbers. The theft occurred between April 2013 and December 2013. The employee…
Employee error most likely cause of data breaches among in-house legal counsel, new report says
More than half of in-house legal counsel report that their companies are increasing spending on cybersecurity, while one-third state that their companies have experienced a data breach, according to a new report from the Washington, DC-based Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) Foundation. Read more on CanadianUnderwriter.ca. The report will cost you $475 (yeah, right, I’ll…
Man who hacked St. Louis County police union gets 18 months
Oops. I think I missed this one the other day. Robert Patrick reports: A man who helped launch a cyberattack that disabled a St. Louis County police union website last year was sentenced to 18 months in prison Monday. Justin E. Payne, 33, disabled the St. Louis County Police Association website a year ago by overwhelming it…