Update Sunday 3:34 pm: In response to follow-up questions, Verizon spokesperson Alberto Canal informed this site last night: Some were Verizon customers, most were not. In regards to the number of individuals, the total was about 10% of what was originally reported. In answer to your question about a vulnerability: No there was not. There…
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VA: Fairfax Schools leak: Personal student info will be removed
Hatzel Vela reports on WJLA: Fairfax County Public Schools Wednesday learned confidential student information from Fairfax High School was leaked and posted online, but that information is now being taken down. The information included student’s names, student ID numbers and even grades. The records listed students from 9th to 11th grade. Because senior students are…
Arizona man arrested for fraud after illegal info found on flash drive
KVOA reports: A 34-year-old man was arrested Friday in Tempe after a tax fraud and identity theft investigation that began early this year, when authorities found a flash drive containing hundreds of names and personal information at Cochise College. Back in February, the Sierra Vista Police Department was contacted by Cochise College employees after a…
Former state employee sentenced to federal prison for ID theft
Some follow-up on a previously reported case of some folks in Alabama who stole and used identity info as part of a tax refund fraud scheme. The conspirator sentenced today worked for the Alabama Department of Corrections.
Now-former student arrested in the University of Nebraska hack
Leslie Reed reports an arrest in a hacking incident that affected the University of Nebraska and state college system; A former computer science and math major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln now faces a federal computer hacking charge from last spring’s breach of a key computer system serving both NU and the state college system….
Pathetic, pathetic, pathetic
And yet again: A resident contacted Target 11 saying he had discovered boxes of documents from a non-profit development agency in the West End of Pittsburgh. He said the documents, including names and Social Security numbers, were sitting right out in the open next to a dumpster on a public sidewalk. “They contained people’s Social Security numbers, row…