Jacey Fortin reports: Hundreds of prison inmates in Idaho found a way to add hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of credit to their personal accounts, officials discovered this month. The prisoners were not inflating their bank accounts, but rather their JPay accounts. JPay is a service that inmates can use to communicate with the…
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Nearly 8K Georgia Tech students had personal info leaked in email gaffe
Jonathan Carlson reports: The CBS46 Bulldog learned exclusively of an accidental breach of records at Georgia Tech involving everything from grades to home addresses. Georgia Tech tells CBS46 that nearly 8,000 students were impacted. “It is kind of uncomfortable, ya know,” one student told us on campus. Students are reacting after a staffer in the…
KS: Garden City Community College investigating possible email breach
Amber Friend reports: Reports of unauthorized monitoring of several Garden City Community College employees’ emails prompted the college to open an investigation Friday, an action that included starting the probe with the college’s information technology department and placing its three-man staff on suspension with pay until further notice. The media report names the suspended staff…
Southern College of Optometry notifies students whose loan information was hacked
The Southern College of Optometry (SCO) has notified an undisclosed number of students whose student loan information and Social Security numbers were in an employee email account that was hacked. In its notification letter of July 16, SCO President Lewis N. Reich, OD, PhD writes: As stated in our email of June 15, 2018, we discovered…
LifeLock Bug Exposed Millions of Customer Email Addresses
Brian Krebs reports: Identity theft protection firm LifeLock — a company that’s built a name for itself based on the promise of helping consumers protect their identities online — may have actually exposed customers to additional attacks from ID thieves and phishers. The company just fixed a vulnerability on its site that allowed anyone with…
SC: Roper Hospital patient records in courier’s stolen car
Rebecca Collett reports that a courier for Roper Hospital had a suitcase with patient records stolen on July 3 while she was paying for gas: The medical records were in a locked suitcase in the car, according to Andy Lyons, the Director of Corporate Communications for the hospital system. The records belong to 133 patients…