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Author: Dissent

(follow-up) St. Louis man sentenced for stealing credit card numbers

Posted on July 12, 2011 by Dissent

Following up on a breach reported previously on this blog, a man who recruited a waitress at f Amarillo Tex’s Steak House in Alton to skim card information has been sentenced for his part in the scheme.  The Telegraph reports: Miltiano Trevaris Johnson, 31, was sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court in East St. Louis, where…

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CO: City employee loses job over Memorial records breach

Posted on July 12, 2011 by Dissent

Barbara Cotter reports on a breach at Colorado Springs Hospital – Memorial Health System: A Colorado Springs city employee has lost her job for allegedly accessing the records of 2,500 Memorial Hospital patients without cause, and a police investigation is under way, officials reported Monday. Lori Niell, a nurse with the city’s occupational health clinic,…

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Stevens Institute of Technology hacked; user data dumped

Posted on July 12, 2011 by Dissent

Another hack by #AntiSec, this time the New Jersey-based Stevens Institute of Technology. 31 first and last names, usernames, passwords (plaintext!) and email addresses exposed on Pastebinon July 7.  And in many cases, the passwords are identical to the simple usernames.  Not good. I emailed Stevens over the weekend to ask them about the breach…

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Anonymous Leaks 90,000 Military Email Accounts in Latest #AntiSec Attack on Booz Allen Hamilton (updated)

Posted on July 11, 2011 by Dissent

Sam Biddle reports: Booz Allen Hamilton is a massive American consulting firm that does a substantial amount of work for the Pentagon. This means they’ve got a lot of military business on their servers—which Anonymous hacked. Today they’ve leaked it. The leak, dubbed ‘Military Meltdown Monday,’ includes 90,000 logins of military personnel—including personnel from US…

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UK: News International papers targeted Gordon Brown (updated with apology from The Guardian)

Posted on July 11, 2011 by Dissent

The explosive scandal in the U.K. involving phone hacking is not something I’ve covered on this blog, but a story about it caught my eye. Nick Davies and David Leigh report: Journalists from across News International repeatedly targeted the former prime minister Gordon Brown, attempting to access his voicemail and obtaining information from his bank…

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2 held over Baidu personal info leak

Posted on July 10, 2011 by Dissent

Zha Minjie reports in The Shanghai Daily: Shanghai police said yesterday that two suspects have been caught for allegedly revealing online the personal information of more than 1,700 local apartment owners in a residential complex in the Pudong New Area. Access to the leaked data has now been blocked from Baidu’s database, according to police….

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