Category: Hacked

Hackers Steal Credit Card Info From Wyndham Hotel Computer Systems

1 April, 2010 (12:38) | Credit Card Crime, Hacked | No comments

I’m beginning to wonder if some of these companies will ever learn their lesson. It seems like every week we are hearing about another security breach at some big corporation that has resulted in the theft of personal information from customer databases.
A recent breach involving systems used by Wyndham Hotels & Resorts was apparently in [...]

Another Data Blunder Exposes Consumer Information

19 July, 2007 (16:05) | Hacked, Identity Theft | No comments

This time it’s the Louisiana Board of Regents — an organization that oversees the state’s institutions of higher education — that has managed to expose personal information belonging to some 80,000 individuals to just about anyone who was able to stumble across it.
Although the information was part of an internal web site, the data was available to just [...]

California Veterinary School Computer Penetrated

28 June, 2007 (20:45) | Hacked | No comments

A computer a the veterinary school at U.C. Davis was hacked into and personal information for about 1500 students apparently was accessed.
The report goes on to state that the personal information stored on the computer system included names, birth dates and social security numbers. And this is the part that starts to get me more [...]