Robert McMillan reports: Users of the 4chan online message board managed to get access to the online student information system used by a New Jersey school district after the school’s administrative password was posted to 4chan last week. The problem started last Tuesday, according to the Plainfield Board of Education, which serves a small school…
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MA: Students’ Personal Data Posted Online
Team 5 Investigates has learned that the personal information of as many as 1,300 current and former students at the Wentworth Institute of Technology was inadvertently put online. School officials notified all affected students of the data breach, which was reported to WIT on Dec. 22. The letter said that an “electronic file was accessible…
Error sends University of Missouri health insurance mail to wrong addresses
Adam Dodge of ESI sends along this news story by Ladd Egan: Hundreds of participants of University of Missouri’s health insurance program are being told to be on the look-out for insurance fraud after several hundred insurance communications were mailed to the wrong person. Health benefit statements, health services letters and new ID cards were…
WA: Grays Harbor Pediatrics Backup Device Stolen
A substitute notice/press release on a breach in Washington State: Grays Harbor Pediatrics discovered on November 23, 2010 that a computer backup device was stolen from a Grays Harbor Pediatric employee. The backup device was used for storing copies of paper records. Grays Harbor Pediatrics has notified all patients and patient billing guarantors. An investigation…
(Ohio follow-up) Two sentenced in Franklin County Municipal Court ID Theft Case
Kathy Lyn Gray reports: Two Columbus residents will spend two and half years in federal prison for taking information from the Franklin County Municipal Court website and stealing people’s identities. Judge Gregory L. Frost sentenced Katura Mozelle, 23, today in U.S. District Court in Columbus on charges of bank fraud, conspiracy to commit bank fraud…
CA: Three arrested for credit card fraud
San Luis Obispo Police arrested three people who allegedly stole $58,000 from at least 100 people by strategically placing small cameras and card readers at several county banks. For several months, police have been investigating local credit card skimming operations. On January 13, a Chase Bank investigator told police he had captured video images of…