Seen on Maplesoft’s web site: Maplesoft is investigating a security breach of its administrative database that took place on July 17th, 2012. As a result of the breach, the perpetrators gained access to some email subscription data, including email addresses, first and last names, and company and institution names. Any financial information held by Maplesoft remains…
Category: U.S.
1,200 Usernames, Passwords Leaked from Yale University
Eduard Kovacs reports: The newly founded hacker collective NullCrew has been very busy in the past few days. After they hacked the systems of ASUS and the ones of a South African ISP directory, they turned their attention to Yale University. From the databases of the educational institution, the hackers obtained the details of around 1,200 students and…
MN: Bankers’ breaches to help ID theft ring lead to prison
Dan Browning reports: Two former bankers convicted of aggravated identity theft and helping an international crime organization based in the Twin Cities to bilk more than $50 million from U.S. banks apologized for their crimes Wednesday and pleaded with a judge to go easy on them. But Chief U.S. District Judge Michael Davis flatly rejected…
OR: Search warrant documents student’s computer hacking
More details have emerged on the North Eugene High School, Oregon breach. Karen McCowan reports: A 16-year-old former North Eugene High School student — accused of illegally accessing and posting a spreadsheet last month that contained the confidential information of thousands of Eugene students — was caught in late 2011 using an administrative password to…
Missouri Bank Sues Ex-Workers on Data Theft Claim
Robert Barba reports: Pulaski Bank has filed a lawsuit against three former employees over mortgage data that the Creve Couer, Mo., bank claims the employees took and are using to give their new employer a leg up. The $1.3 billion-asset bank unit of Pulaski Financial filed its lawsuit Tuesday against Rita Rieke, Linda Stewart and…
Court Dismisses Data Breach Claims Against Countrywide – Holmes v. Countrywide
Venkat Balasubramani discusses the decision in Holmes v. Countrywide Financial Corp., et al.: In August 2008, a Countrywide employee engaged in a scheme to steal confidential customer information from Countrywide. An investigation found that the employee gained access to data from 2.4 million loan customers, and sold this information to unknown third parties for the…