I’ve been noting updates on the Benesse data theft, which was first disclosed in July 2014. Here’s the latest development, from the Japan Times: More than 1,700 people filed a group lawsuit on Thursday against major education service provider Benesse Corp. over last year’s massive theft of customer data. They are demanding ¥55,000 [$464.24 USD…
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13 Bay area defendants charged in 4 separate tax fraud schemes
SAN FRANCISCO – The grand jury returned indictments charging 13 people in connection with four separate tax fraud schemes. On January 6, 2015, San Francisco residents Josiah Larkin, 38, Monica Cobbins, 47, Krishell Robinson, 25, Thomalyn Virden, 51, and Ursula Choice, 28, were charged in a 32 count indictment with conspiracy to file false…
Ca: Six month limitation blocks prosecution over breached abortion records at Peterborough hospital
Sarah Frank reports: Although acting privacy commissioner Brian Beamish deems breached abortion files at the Peterborough Regional Health Centre worthy of prosecution, too much time has passed to press charges. Read more on MyKawartha.com. The breach was actually reported to the commissioner’s office in 2011, but at the time, they weren’t as interested in prosecution…
University of Oregon unlawfully releases 22,000 pages with confidential faculty, staff and student records
Richard Read reports: University of Oregon officials have placed two employees on leave after the “unlawful release” of 22,000 pages of records from the president’s office, including confidential information on faculty, staff and students. Interim UO President Scott Coltrane sent out an email Tuesday night, addressed to colleagues, saying an investigation was underway. Although no Social Security numbers, financial…
Metropolitan State U. disclosed breach, but what about other .edu targets of Abdilo?
On December 31, a self-described teenage hacker from Australia who calls himself “Abdilo” claimed to have hacked into dozens of education entities by exploiting SQLi vulnerabilities. Metropolitan State University acknowledged they were breached, but what is going on with the other educational entities that were allegedly hacked, too? Abdilo claims that he started attacking .edu sites back in…
5 Colleges With Data Breaches Larger Than Sony’s in 2014
Kyle McCarthy points out that there were at least five colleges that had breaches larger than Sony’s breach in 2014. So he made a list? Why is there absolutely NO mention of the fact that no federal agency enforces data security in the education sector? Isn’t THAT the bigger atory?