Jeremy Maskel reports: Omaha Burke High School Principal Dr. Deborah Frison apologized in an email to families Wednesday, after an earlier email included an attachment with more than 2,000 students’ home addresses, phone numbers and student ID numbers. The email did not include any Social Security numbers. Read more on KETV. h/t, @VERISDB
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FL: Tax refund fraud scheme involved two insiders misusing databases
WTXL reports that five people have been indicted in a tax refund fraud scheme that included two employees misusing their access to databases. One of those indicted, Katrina Pratt, had been an administrative assistant in human resources at Florida A & M University (FAMU), and allegedly used the identities of 40 students there as part…
Top official fired for records security breach at St. Louis Recorder of Deeds office
Adam McDonald reports: A top official in the St. Louis Recorder of Deeds Office has been fired for a vital records security breach of about 19,000 unauthorized copies of death certificates. The acting Recorder of Deeds, Jennifer Florida, says Preggy Meeker, the alleged suspect, allowed employees to log into Missouri’s vital records system by using…
Sheplers Western Wear Alerts Customers Concerning Data Breach Affecting Retail Stores
Sheplers, the leading multi-channel western-wear retailer, today issued the following statement: Sheplers has determined that our payment systems suffered a security breach in which hackers gained access to our systems and some of our customers’ payment card information was exposed. With the assistance of a leading computer security firm, we are continuing our investigation into…
CA: Indio man arrested in credit card theft case
An Indio, California man was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of misusing customers’ credit card numbers for fraudulent purposes. Vladimir Pustilnikov, 38, claimed to own B&E Appliance Heating and Air Conditioning, but law enforcement said, “The license number he advertised on his service contracts and business cards does not belong to him.” Law enforcement suspects that…
Failure to patch Oracle leaves students and kids at risk of info theft
Jake Tapper reports that some organizations still haven’t patched Oracle, leaving sensitive information at risk of hacking: This month, [researchers] found that a weakness in Oracle’s software – that the company discovered in 2012 and provided a patch for – still remains a huge vulnerability to any customer that missed or ignored that news. Seely…