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Personal data of people who never even applied to Auburn University was also exposed in breach

Posted on April 10, 2015 by Dissent

The Auburn University breach involving the exposure of information just got worse, in my opinion. Erin Edgemon reports that some of the people who had their data exposed not only never attended Auburn, but never even applied there. Not surprisingly, they would like to know how Auburn got personal information about them that wound up exposed. But Auburn reportedly…

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FL: Was Pasco County School District negligent in securing their network from students?

Posted on April 10, 2015 by Dissent

WTSP has provided a follow-up to a report noted earlier involving a 14-year old student at Paul R. Smith Middle School who is facing two felony charges for allegedly hacking into the Pasco County School District‘s network.  Their new report addresses some of the questions I raised in my previous post about the incident. In their update, the student, who is now…

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FL: 14-year-old arrested after hacking into FCAT

Posted on April 9, 2015 by Dissent

For those not familiar with it, FCAT is the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, a standardized test for assessing student performance.  WTSP reports: A 14-year-old student at Paul R. Smith Middle School was arrested Wednesday after investigators say he hacked into the school’s computer system and accessed the server containing 2014 FCAT information. In addition, the student…

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Equifax discloses data breach due to technical error during software change

Posted on April 9, 2015 by Dissent

Credit reporting giant Equifax is notifying some consumers that some of their personal information may have erroneously been sent to other individuals due to a technical error during a software change. Equifax discovered the problem on March 15, and notes that they attempted to call all recipients of the inadvertent disclosures to recover the files…

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Mississippi woman sentenced to prison for 10 years for stolen identity tax refund fraud scheme

Posted on April 9, 2015 by Dissent

Well, she was originally scheduled to be sentenced almost one year ago, but now Marietta Harris has been sentenced, it seems, and sentenced to the maximum prison term available under the guidelines.  The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Mississippi issued a press release today: Marietta Harris, 39, of Jackson, was sentenced on…

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Southern Powerlifting Federation member data repeatedly dumped – does anyone there notice?

Posted on April 9, 2015 by Dissent

Today’s second example of an entity not knowing their data has been repeatedly dumped is Southern Powerlifting Federation. On April 7, “Jabb” (@Versifyings) dumped some of  their smf_members database on Pastebin. The dump consisted of approximately 440 email addresses and hashed passwords. The database records indicate that there were over 15,000 records. Whether Jabbs acquired them all…

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