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Month: July 2015

Homeplus execs and employees illegally sold 24m customers’ info: prosecutors

Posted on July 23, 2015 by Dissent

South Korea has had some major breaches involving consumer information that I’ve reported on over the past years. Here’s a report from Yonhap News that mentions a breach I seem to have missed, though: In February, Homeplus Co., the South Korean unit of British retail giant Tesco PLC, was also indicted on charges of illegally selling…

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Ca: Case of accused CBE teen hacker adjourned until August

Posted on July 23, 2015 by Dissent

Daryl Slade has an update on the case of the teenager accused of hacking the Calgary Board of Education: The lawyer for a 15-year-old boy charged last month with allegedly hacking into Calgary Board of Education servers over a five-month period appeared in youth court on Thursday. The teen, who was represented by lawyer Joel Chevrefils, allegedly…

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UK: Customer Data Leaked in Possible Bitcoin Vendor Breach

Posted on July 23, 2015 by Dissent

Stan Higgins reports: A UK bitcoin vendor may have suffered a security breach, temporarily exposing customer data to the public. Visitors to the website for CoinCut, based in London, were able to access directories that included images of passports, credit and debit cards and personal IDs. The site was taken offline, and it is unclear how long the information…

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One in four US hackers is an FBI informer

Posted on July 23, 2015 by Dissent

Ed Pilkington reports: The underground world of computer hackers has been so thoroughly infiltrated in the US by the FBI and secret service that it is now riddled with paranoia and mistrust, with an estimated one in four hackers secretly informing on their peers, a Guardian investigation has established. Cyber policing units have had such…

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Is there a “constitutional right to informational privacy”? as claimed by NTEU’s data breach lawsuit?

Posted on July 23, 2015 by Dissent

On July 8, in noting NTEU’s lawsuit over the OPM hack, I had questioned the suit’s claim that the government breach constituted a violation of their “constitutional right to informational privacy.” Jennifer E. Canfield of Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads LLP also picked up on that point and discusses the issue on Montgomery McCracken Data Privacy…

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Massachusetts DESE finds Tewksbury data breach violated state law

Posted on July 23, 2015 by Dissent

In April, this site noted what I described as a “horrific” breach involving the Tewksbury public schools. A document included in a 222-page School Committee packet that had been publicly available online not only exposed personal and private details for the out of district placements of 83 special education students, but it rated their parents according…

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