KTTS alerts us to a breach involving Missouri State University students. A statement on MSU’s web site explains: Missouri State University officials are notifying 6,030 College of Education students that their social security numbers may have been compromised as a result of an internal security breach. In October and November 2010, in preparation for an…
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UK: Imperial College Dept. of Computing in IT Security Breach
The Department of Computing has found itself the subject of a “security breach”, and Imperial College’s ICT department is taking “precautionary” action to prevent malicious access to user accounts. An email to all students and staff within the department informed students that there had been “a root level compromise was discovered on the main shell…
The West Virginia Attorney General’s Office statement on CAMC breach
West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw today announced actions by his office and the Charleston Area Medical Center (CAMC) to secure the private information of 3655 patients affected by a data breach on a website set up for CAMC. The breach occurred within the research subsidiary of CAMC – the CAMC Health Education Research Institute…
Contractor error exposed Charleston Area Medical Center’s Research Institute patient data on web
Statement by Charleston Area Medical Center: We wanted to let you know about a security incident that occurred at Charleston Area Medical Center’s Research Institute, which involved the personal information of some of our patients. On February 8, 2011, we learned that one of our databases containing information about 3655 patients had security vulnerability. The…
Patient privacy should be respected abroad and online
A news release from the University of Florida serves as a timely reminder: Taking an unauthorized photo of a patient and posting it on Facebook is a giant no-no for health-care providers, who follow strict federal guidelines protecting patient privacy. But what if the patient is a little girl in Ecuador receiving a vaccine from…
$99 can buy you a uni’s “full database informations” (updated)
A web site recently discussed by Imperva and Brian Krebs has an updated listing of hacked sites for sale, and in yesterday’s listing, there were a number of U.S. educational institutions: http://www.kent.edu/ Kent State University, A Top Ohio University Full site database Informations unknown $99 http://www.maricopa.edu/ Maricopa Community Colleges Full site database Informations unknown $99 http://www.unc.edu/…