Sonseeahray Tonsall reports: Three years ago, FOX40 first reported that as many as 200 academic records were stolen from the San Juan Unified School district and discovered in an FBI raid of homes in Sacramento and Studio City. Information like student social security numbers was used to make $1 million worth of fraudulent charges on…
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WV: DEP says computer outage not caused by hacking
Ken Ward Jr. reports: The state Department of Environmental Protection said Thursday that a more than weeklong outage of some of its computer systems was not the result of a hacking incident reported by an internet technology firm. DEP did not provide additional information about the computer outage, which affected a variety of online databases…
TxDOT computer system in “security incident”
KXAN reports: The Texas Department of Transportation says some personal information of employees was compromised last week due to a “security incident.” KXAN first learned of the system breach from sources late Tuesday. The department says the breach of TxDOT’s automated administrative system was discovered Friday afternoon. The agency says “a small number of employees”…
Yahoo tells users they were hit with cookie attack
Laura Hautala reports: Yahoo users found out Wednesday that hackers used a technical trick with cookies to log into their accounts without passwords. “Based on the ongoing investigation, we believe a forged cookie may have been used in 2015 or 2016 to access your account,” Yahoo users were told in an email. Yahoo revealed the…
Fulton County clinic dumps sensitive medical records in plain sight
Dante Renzulli reports: A Fulton County clinic is caught dumping medical records in a place where identity thieves could easily get to them. On Thursday, CBS46 discovered the dumpster sitting right in front of the South Fulton Mental Heath Center contained hundreds of medical records. We didn’t even have to come in the middle of the night. CBS46 reporter, Dante Renzulli,…
MT: 20,000+ tribal members warned of data breach
The Miami Herald reports that 20,000 members of the Crow and Northern Cheyenne Tribes in Montana were notified that their personal information was on an unencrypted hard drive stolen from a Bureau of Indian Affairs law enforcement vehicle in Big Horn County. The unencrypted device contained names, addresses, birthdates and tribal enrollment information for members of the Crow…