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…
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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…
Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine students notified of breach by benefits administrator Hubbard-Bert
Hubbard-Bert is the benfits administrator for students at Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine. On April 24, they learned that spreadsheets containing personal information of some LECOM students was inadvertently exposed on the Internet due to a misconfiguration of a test server on April 14 (yes, a test server should not have live data for exactly…
Former Subway franchise owner admits to POS hacking
There’s an update to a Subway breach previously reported here. Jeremy Kirk reports: A former owner of several Subway fast-food restaurants in southern California pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges stemming from a gift card scheme that involved tampering with several other Subway stores’ computerized cash registers. Federal prosecutors accused Shahin Abdollahi, 46, of Lake Elsinore, California,…
University of Nebraska – Omaha Investigating Security Breach Involving Personal Information
KPTM reports: School officials at UNO say they are investigating unauthorized access to an administrative server within campus security. They say an incident was discovered last week during a security scan and that the server contained files with personal information and Social Security numbers. Police are looking into the case to see if any individuals’ personal…