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Brownsville Independent School District employees notified that their SSN and salary were exposed on the Internet

Posted on November 13, 2011 by Dissent

The following notice was posted on Brownsville (Texas) Independent School District web site: On Monday, November 7, 2011, Brownsville ISD was advised that the Social Security numbers of employees who are enrolled for disability insurance were inadvertently posted by prior department administration in April 2011 on the Employee Benefits/Risk Management (EB/RM) website; a site accessible…

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When hackers turn on each other, Sunday edition

Posted on November 13, 2011 by Dissent

Getting kicked out of an IRC channel can be annoying.  Really annoying, apparently. So much so that  @theamericanlulz, who describes himself as a 16 year-old French hacker, dumped over 600 IRC nicks and corresponding IPs from anonops .net IRC on Pastebin with promises to get more people arrested.  In a preamble to the data, he explains…

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Want something to do in Providence at night? How about staying home and changing your password….

Posted on November 13, 2011 by Dissent

Another reported data leak posted to Pastebin –  providencenightlife.net – reveals usernames, clear-text passwords, and e-mail addresses.  Fifty thousand were reportedly acquired and posted to another site that requires you to fill out a survey to download the data.  Since I don’t do surveys, I haven’t checked the full archive, but 83 are are offered…

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USPS notified 5,400 online store customers after their data were inadvertently revealed to others

Posted on November 12, 2011 by Dissent

A few days ago, I received an inquiry from someone who had logged into her USPS online store account, only to see another customer’s name, address, and last four digits of their credit card number.  Understandably concerned, she contacted customer service who told her that it was a “known error” and that letters would be…

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NJ: Rogue SSA employee provided Social Security Numbers for a bank fraud scheme

Posted on November 11, 2011 by Dissent

Another insider breach involving the Social Security Administration has come to light. In a federal court in New Jersey this week, Syed Rehman, 44, of Jersey City, admitted his role in a bank fraud scheme in which he used unlawfully obtained Social Security numbers to obtain credit cards and mortgages, causing four banks to lose…

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Spreadsheet with info on 19,276 University of Texas-Pan American students exposed on the Internet

Posted on November 11, 2011 by Dissent

According to its student newspaper, PanAmerican Online, The University of Texas-Pan American has e-mailed an alert to students affected by a security breach. The text of the e-mail is reportedly as follows: On Nov. 2, 2011, The University of Texas-Pan American discovered that on Sept. 1, 2011, a spreadsheet containing information on 19,276 students was made…

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