Joe O’Sullivan reports: When National American University moved from one Rapid City campus to a new location earlier this year, the school or a contractor appears to have improperly disposed of thousands of sensitive student financial records that included names, addresses, loan numbers and Social Security numbers, according to documents reviewed by the Rapid City…
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AZ: Former Sheriff’s Office IT employee indicted for computer tampering, ID theft
Phil Benson reports: A former technology expert and telecommunications director at the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office has been indicted on charges of computer tampering and identity theft. A Maricopa County Grand Jury handed up an indictment against Robert Rampy late last Friday on 14 assorted felony charges. The indictment alleged Rampy wrongfully released and accessed…
Scottsdale Dermatology Clinic patients became victims of ID theft after billing firm employee stole their information
The Sonoran News reports that two people have been arrested in Maricopa County on charges related to identity theft. One of them, Brittany Davidson, is suspected of stealing the credit card information of multiple patients in the course of her employment at a medical billing firm that is a business associate of Scottsdale Dermatology Clinic….
Other recent breaches that flew under the media radar
State web sites that post breach reports often reveal breaches we didn’t learn about via media coverage. Here are five that I learned about in the past few days: Republic Services reported that a laptop stolen from an employee’s home contained current and former employees’ names and Social Security numbers. The theft occurred in Maricopa…
AZ: Public printing of court documents halted due to security breach
Scott Orr reports: Citing a security breach in a software update, Sandra K. Markham, clerk of Yavapai County Superior Court, on Monday ordered that the ability to print documents from public-access court document computer terminals be shut down. “One of my clerks was being an investigator, and she just tried to see if something he…
University of Washington and other universities hacked. Again. And again.
The message at the top of a paste by two hackers pretty much nails it: A few days back, Team ITNRA hacker ‘HaxOr’ hacked into the University of Washington using a SQL injection. The SQL injection that was abused was fixed, but that doesn’t mean there wasn’t more. Just because someone finds an SQL injection…