Brandi Bottalico reports that Frederick County Public Schools, currently embroiled in a finger-pointing exercise with the state as to who’s responsible for a recently discovered breach involving former students’ information, had another breach last year. In January 2015, employees’ W-2 statements were viewable by other employees. The breach appeared to be strictly internal and due to human…
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GA: Columbia County schools victim of data breach
Mike Lepp reports: The Columbia County School District has revealed that one of their servers suffered a data breach. The attack happened on November 28th when one of their servers was breached by an outside source. […] The affected server did not contain any student data, but it DID contain confidential employee information, including names,…
WI: Former Forest Service Employee Sentenced in Federal Court for Identity Theft and Credit Card Fraud
United States Attorney Gregory A. Haanstad of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced Tuesday that Michael Hanan, 35, of Sussex, Wisconsin was sentenced to 4 years’ imprisonment and 3 years supervised release for identity theft and credit card fraud. In September of 2016, Hanan pleaded guilty to one count of access-device fraud, in violation of 18…
University of Nebraska-Lincoln notifies 30,000 of breach that may have occurred two years ago
Chris Dunker reports: A breach of a University of Nebraska-Lincoln computer server potentially exposed thousands of student names, ID numbers and grades to an outside source, campus officials said Tuesday. In a letter sent to approximately 30,000 current and former students, UNL said an unauthorized breach of a server hosting a math placement exam occurred…
Data breach affects almost 400,000 Community Health Plan members (UPDATE2)
Bob Young reports: Almost 400,000 current and former members of the Community Health Plan of Washington have had personal information, including Social Security numbers, exposed in a data breach. The nonprofit, which provides health insurance through Medicaid in Washington, is sending letters to 381,534 individuals Wednesday notifying them of the invasion and steps they can…
State rebuts fault in Frederick County Public Schools data breach
Jeremy Bauer-Wolf reports: Frederick County Public Schools said on Monday that it is likely that students’ personal information was stolen from a state government computer system, a claim that Maryland’s education department nevertheless rebuts. Names, birth dates and Social Security numbers of about 1,000 former Frederick County students who attended school between November 2005 and…