Robert Glass of WHRW News reports on a breach waiting to happen: In a titanic breach of security, Binghamton University kept payment information for every student, possibly dating back at least ten years in a storage area next to one of the most trafficked lecture halls on campus, behind a door that was not only…
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CA: Stolen police laptops had access to county data system
Laura Norton of The Press Democrat reports that four laptops with access to personal information on the department’s more than 1,000 employees were stolen from Sonoma County Sheriff’s Department police vehicles. While the laptops were in the police vehicles, they could access the county data system, although there is no indication that the thieves did…
TX: Computers With NEISD Personal Information Stolen
Personal information, resumes, photos of students and other information was found on computers from the North East Independent School District that were scheduled for destruction, but ended up for sale online and in flea markets. District officials said the computers, including three computers and two hard drives obtained by KSAT 12 News, were sent to…
USAID.gov compromised, malware and exploits served
Dancho Danchev of ZDnet reportsthat the Azerbaijan section at the United States Agency for International Development (azerbaijan.usaid.gov) has been compromised and is embedded with malware and exploits serving scripts since approximately March 1. He also provides a dissection of the attack. There’s a YouTube video from AVG as well, although it’s either somewhat blurry or…
Lost in the mail? 3,700 NYC employees’ Social Security numbers
Kathleen Lucadamo of the Daily News reports that documents containing the Social Security numbers of 3,700 members of the Office of Staff Analysts union went missing after New York City’s Office of Payroll Administration mailed them to union headquarters. The package, sent “certified, return-receipt mail” – never arrived. There is no indication as to why…
Evicted OK child welfare worker leaves sensitive records behind
In what appears to be yet another breach involving paper records, Jay F. Marks of The Oklahoman reports that the Oklahoma Department of Human Services has opened an investigation into how a child welfare worker’s records ended up in possession of a local news station, KWTV-9. The records, which included names, Social Security numbers, contact…