The following news release was issued by the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas on Sept. 1, 2011: Joanna Jones Ellis Kemp, 68, and her husband, Peter A. Kemp, 67, both of Plano, Texas, each appeared in federal court this morning before U.S. Magistrate Judge Irma C. Ramirez and pleaded guilty to…
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Texas Police Chief Association suffers data breach, with sensitive documents and emails published
Dan Raywood reports: The Texas Police Chief Association was hacked last night with classified information leaked along with private emails from police. While the website is currently down, with only a message displayed that reads ‘our site is currently offline for maintenance and updates, please check back tomorrow’, Anonymous has claimed responsibility for the attack but a statement did…
TX: 2 Birdville students hack into school district’s network
Yesterday, it was the school district in El Paso. Today, it’s Birdville reporting a breach. Jessamy Brown reports: Two students from Birdville schools hacked into a school district network server and accessed a file with 14,500 student names and social security numbers, a Birdville spokesman said Thursday. Birdville superintendent Darrell Brown on Thursday mailed a…
MI: Documents stolen from Chesterfield Secretary of State office
Jameson Cook reports: Secretary of State officials discovered that nearly 14,000 documents containing personal information of drivers license and state identification applications were stolen from two Macomb County offices over the past two years, including one in Chesterfield Township. The documents were stolen in May or June from non-public, secured areas at the North Macomb…
Email Misdirected in Switch to Gmail
Julia L. Ryan reports: During the transfer of Harvard @college email accounts to new Google hosted accounts, a handful of students received emails from individuals who share their surname, raising privacy concerns for some who chose to switch email systems. Thousands of students have successfully accessed their new Google hosted @college email accounts, and fewer…
TX: Hackers tap EPISD system: Student, employee information, including Social Security numbers, compromised
Daniel Borunda reports: The private information of thousands of El Paso Independent School District students, teachers and other employees is at risk after hackers broke into the district’s internal computer network. The security breach was discovered Wednesday when a computer security company noticed hackers bragging on a website about breaking into the EPISD system. EPISD…