The Paytime, Inc. breach, noted previously, has resulted in Paytime notifying the California Attorney General’s Office. Since California only requires notification if over 500 residents are affected, it may indicate that the breach was fairly large. According to their forensic investigation, hackers accessed personal information – including name, address, phone numbers, Social Security number and date…
Category: U.S.
Update: Sailor convicted of hacking websites from aboard aircraft carrier
Sean Gallagher reports: A 27-year old now-former sailor pleaded guilty in a federal court in Tulsa, Oklahoma on May 20 to charges of conspiracy after leading a band of hackers in the US and Canada from onboard an aircraft carrier. Nicholas Paul Knight, who was the system administrator for the USS Harry S. Truman’s nuclear reactors department, was…
eBay hit with massive security breach, asks all users to change passwords (updated)
Well, we knew this was coming after a marker for an alert was noticed on PayPal this morning, but now it’s definite: Ebay is asking users to change passwords. Russell Brandom reports: Later today, eBay will begin asking all of its 112 million customers to change their passwords, in the wake of a newly discovered database…
Major School Research and Assessment Provider Hacked
Benjamin Herold reports: The American Institutes for Research, a major research and testing organization with a significant presence in K-12 education in the United States, suffered a serious data breach earlier this month. After one of the organization’s servers was hacked, the sensitive personal information of as many as 6,500 current and former employees, including Social…
The MCCCD breach: Breach costs now approach $20 million
Mary Beth Faller reports that breach costs for the Maricopa County Community College District (“MCCCD”) breach continue to rise: The Maricopa County Community College District governing board has approved an additional $2.3 million in lawyers’ fees to deal with the computer-security breach that occurred last year. The board also approved spending $300,000 to deal with…
Lowe’s notifying employees whose personal information was exposed on Internet by vendor error (updated)
Lowe’s is notifying some current and former vehicle drivers as well as employees who access and administer a driver file system that their personal information was exposed on the Internet for nine months. In their notification letter dated today, Scott Purvis, Vice President of Human Resources for Lowe’s writes: Lowe’s contracts with a third-party vendor to provide a…