Debra O’Connor reports: State computer experts found no evidence of criminal activity when private student data was exposed on the website of a student loan program, according to the Minnesota Office of Higher Education. “We did the big deep-dive security analysis and discovered, of all the log-ins to that site, there were only three that…
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Lost Pizza Co in North Mississippi exposed to data hack
Ed Arnold reports that two Lost Pizza Company locations were also impacted by the Signature Systems breach that affected Jimmy John’s: The data hack that exposed the customers of more than 216 Jimmy John’s locations has also netted two Lost Pizza Company locations, both in North Mississippi. Credit card authorization and point-of-sale technology company Signature Systems, Inc. recently revealed that…
Security Breach Puts Altegrity’s Integrity And Liquidity On The Line
Kate Marino reports: Hackers have claimed some high-profile corporate victims over the last year, with household names like Target and Home Depot typically reaping the lion’s share of media attention. Cyber attacks represent a growing threat to the business world, and their fallout could cost the global economy as much as $3 trillion by 2020, according to a McKinsey & Co….
Bay Area Bioscience Association (BayBio) notifies online customers of breach
The following notification template was submitted to the California Attorney General’s Office yesterday: Dear BayBio Customer, It has come to our attention that sometime within the past two weeks the security of our online payment system was breached. We believe an intruder inserted files that captured the keystrokes of our visitors and may have captured credit…
Signature Systems Breach Expands
Brian Krebs reports: Signature Systems Inc., the point-of-sale vendor blamed for a credit and debit card breach involving some 216 Jimmy John’s sandwich shop locations, now says the breach also may have jeopardized customer card numbers at nearly 100 other independent restaurants across the country that use its products. Read more on KrebsOnSecurity.
G.O.P. Error Reveals Donors and the Price of Access
Jonathan Weisman reports: In politics, it is sometimes better to be lucky than good. Republicans and Democrats, and groups sympathetic to each, spend millions on sophisticated technology to gain an advantage. They do it to exploit vulnerabilities and to make their own information secure. But sometimes, a simple coding mistake can lay bare documents and…