Adam Strunk reports on a breach at University of Kansas: Thieves broke into a Department of Student Housing office Wednesday night and stole documents containing personal information of current and former student housing residents, according to a Department of Student Housing email distributed Friday afternoon to those affected. The email, signed by Student Housing Director…
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Members of Congress want answers fromTRICARE Management on SAIC breach
Five members of the House of Representatives have sent a letter to TRICARE Management Authority concerning the recent SAIC breach that affected over 4.9 million members of the military and their dependents. In a series of questions, the legislators ask for details as to TRICARE’s policies and, in particular, any policies or contracts it had…
Transcend Capital reports stolen laptop contained client data
Austin, Texas-based Transcend Capital reports that a laptop stolen from their Dallas branch contained customers’ names, account numbers, and in some cases, Social Security numbers. By letter dated November 11, Transcend notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that an employee breached policy by not ensuring that his work laptop was encrypted or locked when…
TX: Teacher’s aide fired, NISD makes changes after alleged ID theft
Lauren Lea reports: Northside Independent School District fired an instructional assistant charged with identity theft, and the district is now making changes within. 25-year-old Jason Miller was let go Thursday, two days after his arrest. Inside Miller’s apartment, Live Oak Police found a stack of forms used to authorize criminal background checks for district volunteers…
Extreme Pizza hacked again
Back in July, I blogged about pizza store chains being hacked. One of them was Extreme Pizza, who had received reports of card fraud from 16 of their west coast franchises after a POS hack in August 2010. Now they’re back in the news with reports of a more recent compromise affecting customers in…
The College of New Jersey reports vulnerability might have exposed 12,815 student job applicants’ information
David Karas reports: Officials at The College of New Jersey this week reported an unintentional data breach in the On-Campus Student Employment System, an in-house system designed to store information about students applying for on-campus jobs. According to a notice sent to students and faculty Monday, a vulnerability in the system was identified Nov. 2…