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NCSU research info on Wilson students mistakenly put online

Posted on August 15, 2011 by Dissent

Data housed on a North Carolina State University computer server that contained private information for about 1,800 school children from Wilson and Richmond counties was mistakenly put online, officials said Tuesday. The data, which was gathered from 2003 to 2006 as part of a research study on classroom practices, includes names, Social Security numbers and…

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Two London Borough of Greenwich e-mail breaches involving sensitive information result in undertaking

Posted on August 15, 2011 by Dissent

The London Borough of Greenwich recently signed an undertaking with the Information Commissioner’s Office following two incidents in which unencrypted personal and sensitive information were disclosed due to: (1) failure to encrypt and (2) sending sensitive information by e-mail to external addresses at all .  From the undertaking: The Information Commissioner (the ‘Commissioner’) was provided…

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Another Korean data breach – GOMTV.NET reports hacker compromised user information, including passwords

Posted on August 15, 2011 by Dissent

Paul Ducklin reports that Seoul-based streaming media service GOMTV suffered a breach involving usernames and passwords. An email sent to customers on August 14 said: Dear Valued GOMTV.net users: We regretfully inform you that approximately at 2 AM KST, Aug.12th, there has been an attack against our web site, GOMTV.net. We have found that some…

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AU: Medical records strewn in abandoned Dore clinic in Hawthorn

Posted on August 15, 2011 by Dissent

Belinda Smith reports: Thousands of children’s medical files from a controversial treatment program for hyperactivity and dyslexia have been left strewn throughout an abandoned clinic in Melbourne’s inner east for the past three years. The files — which include names, dates of birth, home addresses and medication details — were left inside the Dore clinic…

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Kr: Court orders SK Communications to pay compensation for info leakage

Posted on August 14, 2011 by Dissent

Another follow-up on a massive data breach that resulted in the South Korean government discarding its plan to enforce real-name registration. Yonhap News reports:  A South Korean court ordered on Sunday the operator of the country’s third most-visited Internet portal to pay out compensation to a user whose information was leaked during last month’s massive…

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#Anonymous claims to have hacked BART; posts employee and rider data

Posted on August 14, 2011 by Dissent

On August 11, the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) suspended wireless service.  According to a statement posted on their web site the next day, their intent was to address an expected protest following an officer-involved shooting on July 3: Organizers planning to disrupt BART service on August 11, 2011 stated they would use mobile devices…

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