CR80News | OSU breach raises fears of ID theft

Friday, May 16, 2008

Another computer breach, this one at Oklahoma State Universitiy, has potentially exposed the names, addresses and Social Security numbers of some 70,000 students, faculty and staff who bought parking and transit services permits in the past six years, a newspaper reports.

The Oklahoman notes that the university didn’t let students know until this week, even though the breach was discovered in March. “Officials said they first wanted to do an investigation to see if any Social Securities numbers had been accessed. They were not able to make a determination,” the newspaper says.

Since then, Social Security numbers have been removed from the site and the server shut down. While the university doesn’t think ID theft was the reason for the breach, it can’t rule that out.

EarthSearch Communications has entered into a partnership agreement with Cynox, the Nigerian technology solutions provider, to monitor fuel levels in oil tankers.

In Nigeria, the cancellation of government oil subsidies has lead to increasing concerns over oil theft. EarthSearch’s integrated RFID and GPS product, together with level sensor technology will be used to monitor sudden drops in fuel level to detect the unauthorized siphoning of oil from the top of tanker.

Police investigates more than 2,000 stolen emergency contact cards

Police are investigating more than 2,000 student emergency contact cards that were stolen from North Miami Beach Senior High School, according to a local news report. The cards hold students’ personal information, some including their social security numbers.

University of Maryland student information stored on publicly accessible computer

A state audit found that personal and financial information for students considering attending the University of Maryland were stored on publicly accessible servers that could make students easy prey to ID thieves.

Israeli database breach raises fears over security of other national databases

The news that Israeli authorities arrested the man they believe was behind the 2006 theft and subsequent leaking of the biometric and biographical data of up to 9 million Israelis contained on their national database has renewed worry of similar issues coming up in other countries where biometric databases continue to grow, according to a Fast Company article.

Stratfor taps CSID for customer ID protection

Stratfor, a publisher of global intelligence and analysis, announced that CSID, a provider of global, enterprise-level identity protection and fraud detection technologies, has been retained to assist Stratfor customers whose financial information may have been compromised by recent cyber attacks.

Cubic responds to Clipper card exploits

Cubic Transportation Systems, distributor of the electronic transit Clipper card, has responded to the recent news of a Ph.D. student in IT Security allegedly breaking the encryption in Clipper and similar transit cards.

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OSU breach raises fears of ID theft