The University of Maryland has lengthened the time of free credit monitoring it will offer to the hundreds of thousands of people whose personal information was compromised during a data breach. President Wallace Loh said in a statement posted Tuesday on the university’s website that those affected will be offered five years of free credit…
Lawsuits against Target continue to be filed in wake of breach
MPR News reports that several Minnesota banks have sued Target over its recent data breach: The First Farmers & Merchants National Banks of Grand Meadow, Cannon Falls, Luverne, Fairmont, and Brownsdale. And for those keeping count, MPR reports: So far, Target now faces 22 data breach lawsuits in the Minnesota U.S. District Court alone. The…
Indiana University notifying 146,000 current & former students that details were accessed by webcrawlers over 11-month period
Indiana University issued the following statement today: Indiana University notified the Indiana attorney general’s office today of the potential exposure of personal data for some students and recent graduates. The data potentially at risk for disclosure includes names, addresses and Social Security numbers for approximately 146,000 students and recent graduates across seven IU campuses who…
MI: Hackers target Carson City Village Market, credit card info stolen and misused
WZZM reports: The Montcalm County Sheriff’s Department is warning of a data breach potentially affecting dozens of customers. Investigators say thieves hacked into the Carson Village Market server and accessed customers’ credit and debit card information. Multiple people have called police to report their credit card numbers were used to make purchases in southeast Michigan…
CO: Heath receives sentence for identity theft, tax fraud
Marija B. Vader reports: Randall Vannoy Heath, 52, of Colorado Springs was sentenced Feb. 18 to serve 84 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release. Heath was found guilty of aggravated identity theft and for filing a false claim with the Internal Revenue Service, according to a U.S. Department of Justice…
Patient records should not have been sold, NHS admits
Kudos to reporter Laura Donnelly, who has been all over this breach and scandal: Medical records should not have been sold to the insurance industry, the new body in charge of NHS patient data has declared. The Telegraph disclosed that 13 years of hospital data – covering 47 million patients – was sold by the…