I should have posted this one a few weeks ago, but better late than never if you care about tracking breaches in the education sector. On November 16, Kara Seymour reported: Two women, one from Yardley another from New Hope, have been arrested after police say they illegally accessed the Bucks County Community College computer…
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Stanford University data glitch exposes truth about scholarships
Nanette Asimov reports: Stanford Business School officials are admitting that for years they have given steep price breaks to preferred applicants while claiming the scholarships were only for needy students — and say they will close a glitch that allowed public access to thousands of confidential student financial aid records. A student discovered in February…
YMCA of Central Florida Notifies Individuals of Security Incident
Nov. 22 – The YMCA of Central Florida (YMCA), today announced it is notifying individuals related to an isolated security incident involving certain personal information. Information accessed may have contained consumers’ names, and/or Social Security Number, driver’s license or other government issued identification, passport, financial account number, payment card number, health information, or health insurance…
Attorney: ‘White hat hacker’ tried to get Trump tax returns
Michael Kunzelman reports: A Louisiana private investigator accused of trying to illegally obtain Donald Trump’s tax returns says he is a benevolent “white hat hacker” who tried to test and report a security flaw in a government website. Jordan Hamlett tried to discover “out of sheer curiosity” whether Trump’s tax information could be accessed through…
Advanced Spine & Pain Center Notifies 8,362 Patients After Two Possibly Unrelated Incidents
So this is a bit unusual. Advanced Spine & Pain Center in San Antonio notified its patients on September 25 following two concerning events that may or may not be related. The first involved some patients receiving phone calls asking them to pay outstanding balances. As part of investigating that incident, ASPC discovered that their server…
No holds barred? TheDarkOverlord threatens students with physical violence to send FBI a message to back off
DataBreaches.net has been reporting on TheDarkOverlord (TDO) since they first burst on the scene in June, 2016. Since then, this site has reported on numerous attacks by them on health care entities, financial and business entities, a Hollywood post-production studio, and a defense contractor. Now they have begun to target the education sector, and an official at the…