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UK: Hampshire school breached data protection rules

Posted on August 8, 2011 by Dissent

From the Information Commissioner’s Office: Bay House School in Hampshire breached the Data Protection Act after the personal details of nearly 20,000 individuals, including some 7,600 pupils, were put at risk during a hacking attack on its website. The hack – which happened in March and involved one of the school’s pupils – exposed pupils’…

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UK: Hampshire school breached data protection rules

Posted on August 8, 2011 by Dissent

From the Information Commissioner’s Office: Bay House School in Hampshire breached the Data Protection Act after the personal details of nearly 20,000 individuals, including some 7,600 pupils, were put at risk during a hacking attack on its website. The hack – which happened in March and involved one of the school’s pupils – exposed pupils’…

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FL: Pasco County diners become credit card fraud victims

Posted on August 7, 2011 by Dissent

Jamie Klein reports: Eight local victims of credit card fraud had one thing in common: They had eaten at the Mugs n’ Jugs restaurant on U.S. 19 in Port Richey before noticing fake charges on their cards. Authorities say former Mugs n’ Jugs waitress Kathryn Shana’e Perez used a “skimmer,” a scanning device that captures…

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Officials: S.J. ringmaster used inside help to steal more than $200K from TD Bank customer accounts

Posted on August 7, 2011 by Dissent

Jim Walsh reports: For more than two years, Kashon Adade sent many customers to TD Bank offices in South Jersey, authorities say. But all that business wasn’t welcome. Investigators claim Adade ran a bank-fraud ring that relied on insider help and identity theft to drain about $200,000 from the accounts of unsuspecting TD Bank customers….

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AntiSec hackers release ‘largest cache yet’ of law enforcement data

Posted on August 6, 2011 by Dissent

Zack Whittaker reports: Hackers associated with the AntiSec movement — a LulzSec and Anonymous combined effort to breach systems with weak security — have released a 10GB in size cache of data belonging to law enforcement. Known as ‘Shooting Sherrifs Saturday’, this follows ‘F**k FBI Friday’ in June, where LulzSec published hundreds of hacked usernames,…

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We need more breach notifications, not fewer

Posted on August 5, 2011 by Dissent

Some topics are more than what Twitter can handle.  The other day, I tweeted: If bills in Congress are enacted, this #databreach wouldn’t require notification: http://bit.ly/qeqRmR I think it should. I didn’t indicate why I think it should. Nevertheless, Jim Harper of Cato subsequently responded with his own tweet: Data breach notice is making its way…

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