Items Tagged with "breaches"
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IT security breaches In Canada more than triples in 2009
September 30, 2009 from: Office of Inadequate Security
IT security breaches cost the average Canadian organization an estimated $834,000 in 2009 – a 97 per cent increase from the $423,000 reported by the study last year. Similarly, the average number of reported IT security breaches also increased 276 per cent to 11.3 per organization in 2009 – compared with an average of three in 2008.
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Hacker hits UNC-Chapel Hill study data
September 25, 2009 from: Office of Inadequate Security
A hacker has infiltrated a computer server housing the personal data of 236,000 women enrolled in a UNC-Chapel Hill research study.
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Study: 600K campus records hacked this year
September 21, 2009 from: Office of Inadequate Security
Computer hackers reportedly have stolen identifying information and credit card numbers from more than half a million — some 600,000 — college students, faculty, and alumni this year. This is prompting some campus IT officials to call for a “total overhaul” of computer security protocol.
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Commerce Bank replaces cards compromised in Heartland breach
September 18, 2009 from: Office of Inadequate Security
Dan Margolies reports that Commerce Bank in Kansas City is first replacing credit cards after a recent small wave of fraudulent activity was reported. The compromised cards were involved in the Heartland Payment Systems breach disclosed in January 2009.
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ID theft ringleader back in custody after 4 years on the lam
September 17, 2009 from: Office of Inadequate Security
The mastermind of an identify theft ring who fled after being sentenced for his role in the scheme to steal personal and confidential credit report profiles of thousands of customers of Weichert Financial Services, Inc. pleaded guilty today to failure to surrender to federal prison.
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Man sentenced for micro-deposit scam
September 17, 2009 from: Office of Inadequate Security
A 22-year old man was sentenced to 15 months in prison and restitution of $200,073.44 for fraud and related activity in connection with computers. After release from prison, Michael Largent will also face three years of strict restrictions on his use of computers and the Internet.
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Auditor: Bullitt lacked proper controls to prevent online theft
September 16, 2009 from: Office of Inadequate Security
Bullitt County [Kentucky] Fiscal Court did not have sufficient online banking controls in place at the time of the June online theft of $415,989, according to a report by the state auditor.
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Postal inspectors uncover MassMutual customer data during ID theft investigation
September 15, 2009 from: Office of Inadequate Security
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (”MassMutual”) recently discovered that an insider had printouts of customer data that might have been used for fraudulent purposes.
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Heartland CEO: Credit Card Encryption Needed
September 15, 2009 from: Office of Inadequate Security
Grant Gross of IDG News Service reports that in testimony before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee yesterday, Heartland Payment Systems CEO Robert Carr was hit with a question about how the payment processor could have been breached for over one year and yet not detected it:
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Website exposes sensitive details on military personnel
September 08, 2009 from: Office of Inadequate Security
Programming errors on a website that helps commuters carpool to work are exposing sensitive information of workers for hundreds of employers in Southern California, including at least one military installation.
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Digital Direct reports breach
September 05, 2009 from: Office of Inadequate Security
Chris Cooper of Bloomberg.com reports that Digital Direct, Inc., a unit of Mitsubishi Corp., had a breach of their e-commerce web site that resulted in the compromise of 52,000 customers’ credit card numbers.
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Court Allows Woman to Sue Bank for Lax Security After $26,000 Stolen by Hacker
September 04, 2009 from: hackyourself.net
An Illinois district court has allowed a couple to sue their bank on the novel grounds that it may have failed to sufficiently secure their account, after an unidentified hacker obtained a $26,500 loan on the account using the customers’ user name and password.
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TJX settles banks’ lawsuit
September 02, 2009 from: Office of Inadequate Security
The Associated Press reports that TJX has settled TJX said it has paid $525,000 to settle claims by some banks about costs they incurred as a result of the retailer’s massive data breach. Other banks — AmeriFirst Bank, HarborOne Credit Union, SELCO Community Cre...
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U. Vermont announces credit card breach
September 02, 2009 from: Office of Inadequate Security
Unversity of Vermont recently discovered that the security of up to 242 university-funded credit cards has been compromised. Ann Naylor of UVM Procurement services said in a statement that UVM is unaware of how the breach occured.
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Finding and Fixing Errors in Google's Book Catalog
September 02, 2009 from: hackyourself.net
There was a fascinating exchange about errors in Google's book catalog over at the Language Log recently. We rarely see such an open and constructive discussion of errors in large data sets, so this is an unusual opportunity to learn about how errors arise and what can be done about them.
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5 men named in racket that netted $4m in stolen card data
September 02, 2009 from: Office of Inadequate Security
Prosecutors in Manhattan have named five additional men from Eastern Europe in an alleged scheme that pilfered $4m using more than 95,000 stolen credit cards.