I’m somewhat surprised this took so long. Back in October, I blogged about a breach involving the Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) in Arizona. The breach involved sensitive information such as names, birth dates, Social Security numbers and bank account information of 2.49 million students, former students, vendors and employees. Judging by the almost 100 comments in…
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UK: Stradishall hacker Lauri Love re-bailed over the charge of hacking US Army and NASA computer systems
More on the Lauri Love case. Debra Fox reports: A baptist minister’s son charged with hacking into American computer systems has been re-bailed until May. Lauri Love, of Stradishall, was arrested in October last year under the Computer Misuse Act on suspicion of hacking into systems including those of the US Army and NASA. He…
Blue Shield of California notifies agents that their SSN was exposed
Blue Shield of California is notifying some agents that their Tax Identification Numbers – which are often the agents’ Social Security Numbers – were accidentally disclosed to some of the agents’ clients who attempted to pay their bills online. In a letter dated today, BSC writes that the problem with SSN exposure existed between December…
C’mon, FTC, when will you do something? (update 2)
It has now been about two years since I filed a complaint with the FTC to alert them to all the data security breaches involving Experian’s credit report database. And while I continue to wait to see the FTC take action against Experian over their numerous breaches involving misuse of clients’ login credentials, Experian…
Zevin Asset Management notifies clients after employee who violated company policy inadvertently exposed personal and financial information
Boston-based Zevin Asset Management recently notified some clients of a breach that began in mid-September 2013. According to a letter dated February 13 signed by their President, Benjamin Lovell: In mid-September 2013, contrary to Zevin policies, a Zevin employee used an online services provider to host a document listing Zevin’s usernames and passwords for certain…
Hackers Show They’ve Stolen 828 Gb of Data from Systems of Las Vegas Sands
Eduard Kovacs reports: The hackers that (sic) breached and defaced the websites of several casinos owned by Las Vegas Sands Corp last week have published a video to demonstrate that they’ve stolen 828 Gb of files from the company’s systems. The data apparently stolen by the hacktivsts hasn’t been published online. They’ve only made the…