Billy Gallagher reports: Stanford University urged network users to change their passwords late Wednesday evening, explaining that it “is investigating an apparent breach of its information technology infrastructure.” Randall Livingston, Stanford’s chief financial officer, emailed the entire Stanford community, noting that Stanford does “not yet know the scope of the intrusion.” Read more on TechCrunch. Alerts…
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Wesley College mistakenly posts private student records online
Nichole Dobo reports: Wesley College published more than a dozen records online that revealed the test scores, grades and written critiques of more than 100 students. The Dover-based private college was not the victim of someone hacking into its system. Instead, the records were posted in 2011 by someone at the school in a folder…
Staff data leaks out of the SEC
Peter Schroeder reports: A serious data breach at the Securities and Exchange Commission transferred personal data about current and former employees into the computer system of another federal agency, a letter sent by the SEC to staff reveals. The July 8 letter, obtained by The Hill, is from Thomas Bayer, the SEC’s chief information officer…
Apple Hacked: Company Admits Development Website Was Breached (UPDATED)
Apple admitted Sunday that its website for developers had been breached by an “intruder” last Thursday, according to All Things D and other sources. In a letter to developers that confirmed the breach, the company did not “rule out” that developers’ names, mailing addresses, and email addresses could have been accessed. However, customer information is encrypted and was not…
Redaction #FAIL: Software glitch Exposed Data on 150,000 Citi Customers in Bankruptcy Court Filings
Sean Sposito reports: In a case that could serve as a warning to other banks that contribute customer data to public storehouses, Citigroup this week acknowledged that it failed to safeguard the personal information — Social Security numbers, birth dates and other sensitive data — of nearly 150,000 consumers who went into bankruptcy between 2007…
Quayside breach update
It seems that the breach notification letter received by residents of New Hampshire may have contained more information than the letter received by Vermont residents. In a letter dated June 21 (the same date as the letter quoted here), Quayside added a statement that there were 639 orders affecting 532 customers, from all areas combined,…