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Author: Dissent

Stratfor’s privacy policy

Posted on December 25, 2011 by Dissent

I was stunned to read that credit card numbers were stored in clear text on Stratfor’s servers.  So I pulled up a cached copy of their Privacy Policy as it appeared on December 19th: Privacy Policy STRATFOR Enterprises LLC , publisher of STRATFOR, and its affiliates (hereafter referred to collectively as “STRATFOR”) are committed to…

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Office of the New York City Public Advocate Hacked

Posted on December 24, 2011 by Dissent

Okay, this is bad.  So bad that if it had been published before I wrote my “worst breaches of 2011” post, it would have probably made the list. The Office of the New York City Public advocate was hacked and the entire database appears to have been dumped, including thousands of pages of highly personal…

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Cn: 20,000 Taishin Int’l Bank clients’ data leaked

Posted on December 24, 2011 by Dissent

Personal information of as many as 20,000 applicants for cash cards issued by Taishin International Bank (台新銀行) have been found to be part of a massive leak of information to a con ring recently busted by the police, the Chinese-language Apple Daily reported yesterday. The police discovered the massive trove of personal information from a…

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Stratfor.com hacked: 200GB e-mail, tens of thousands of credit card numbers stolen from global intelligence firm (Update7)

Posted on December 24, 2011 by Dissent

Looks like Anonymous/#AntiSec  massively hacked Stratfor, while mocking statements the firm had made.  The hackers also dumped what may be their corporate subscribers list. In a tweet earlier today, @anonymousSabu wrote: stratfor.com “global intelligence” company owned and rm’d. Go to it now. See the defacement. Over 90k CCs from LEAs leaked. OUCH I have not yet…

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The six worst data breaches of 2011

Posted on December 24, 2011 by Dissent

If you’re looking for the biggest breaches of the year in terms of numbers affected, you can find them over on DataLossDB.org or in others’ reviews. Certainly there were some really big breaches this year, but those were not necessarily the worst, in my opinion. So here’s my short list of the year’s worst breaches…

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UT: Provo School District system hacked

Posted on December 23, 2011 by Dissent

Someone gained access to the district’s e-mail database and used it to send out about 3,200 emails to parents and some students. The e-mail contained a link to a survey about satisfaction with the district, but the district didn’t authorize sending it and they have no idea as yet who misused the database to send…

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