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April 18, 2008 Data Breach Update
Antioch University in Yellow Springs, Ohio recently disclosed that the Social Security numbers and other personal data of more than 60,000 students, former students, employees, applicants and vendors may have been compromised by multiple intrusions into its main server according to a Computerworld report. The security breaches of a Sun Solaris server that had not been patched against a previously disclosed FTP vulnerability were discovered on February 13. If the security patch had been installed, it would have protected the server from these break-ins. An IRC bot had been installed on the system but the university says that there is no indication that the data on the server was downloaded or copied. The University says that it has taken steps to notify those who may have been affected.
The UC Irvine police say that identity thieves have already used the stolen data of 93 students to file fake tax returns and that a total of 7,000 current or former graduate students could also be at risk for identity theft. Many of the 93 students who have become victims of identity theft already discovered the theft when they attempted to file electronic tax returns this year. The Orange County Register in California reported that the university has been checking and double checking the security of all of its databases and computer systems but has not yet found the source of the data breach.
The Okemo Mountain Resort ski area in Vermont has announced that it has experienced a data breach involving more than 46,000 credit and debit card transactions. Computerworld reported that the Okemo data breach sounds similar to the recent and massive Hannaford data breach. The credit card transactions appear to have been compromised over a 16-day period in February by a system intrusion and the data appears to have been stolen as the credit and debit cards were being authorized. Hopefully no resultant cases of bankruptcy arose.
The Peoria Journal Star reported that a former Illinois Eye Center receptionist may have stolen confidential information including the names, Social Security numbers and birthdates of female patients between the ages of 18 and 35 to use in an identity theft scheme. The Peoria County Sheriff's Department says that there have been seven or eight reports of attempts to use patient's credit information. In one case, unauthorized access to credit information has been reported. The suspect has not been named, and it is believed that she no longer lives in Illinois.
Two dozen officers and civilian employees of an Army agency are now at risk for identity theft after a spreadsheet containing a hidden column of Social Security numbers was left on the agency's website for approximately five months after they were notified of the data breach, according to a report on Federal News Radio. The Army's Acquisition Support Center took their website offline in order to remove the personal data from the spreadsheet after being contacted by Federal News Radio for an interview about identity theft.
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