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Author: Dissent

(follow-up) Ireland to extradite “Boards.ie hacker”?

Posted on June 13, 2011 by Dissent

Back in January 2010, this blog lined to a report that Boards.ie had been hacked.  Irish tech lawyer and professor TJ McIntyre notes that additional information on the breach was subsequently published on Boards.ie and the following month,  The Sunday Times reported: The hacker has already used stolen passwords and email addresses to access credit…

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(update) NZ: National admits Labour data breach – but denies passing names to Whaleoil

Posted on June 13, 2011 by Dissent

NZPA and NBR staff report the latest in the Labour Party donor list breach reported on this blog last night: The National Party has admitted exploiting a security hole in the Labour Party website but denies passing data to a right-wing blogger who plans to release the names of Labour Party donors. The Privacy Commissioner…

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NZ: Labour apologizes over data breach (update1)

Posted on June 12, 2011 by Dissent

The New Zealand Press Association reports: The Labour Party has apologised to donors, after a right-wing blogger said he would release their personal details following what the party called a malicious breach of its website. In an email sent to donors yesterday, party secretary Chris Flatt said an investigation was launched after the discovery of…

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One rash of fraud – or two? No one’s telling the customers who have been victimized.

Posted on June 12, 2011 by Dissent

A reader alerted me to some recent reports out of Ohio about a rash – or rashes? – of card fraud. Teresa Dixon Murray reported on the situation at the beginning of the month: Art Bowker received a call last weekend from his credit union about a suspicious charge on his debit card. Did he…

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A Russian A.T.M. With an Ear for the Truth

Posted on June 12, 2011 by Dissent

Andrew Kramer had an interesting item in the New York Times this week: Russia’s biggest retail bank is testing a machine that the old K.G.B. might have loved, an A.T.M. with a built-in lie detector intended to prevent consumer credit fraud. Consumers with no previous relationship with the bank could talk to the machine to…

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Southern California Medical-Legal Consultants reveals that 300,000 workers’ compensation applicants’ names and Social Security Numbers were exposed on internet

Posted on June 12, 2011 by Dissent

Remember how Heartland Payment Systems took a lot of heat for announcing their breach at a time that coincided with President Obama’s inauguration? Since then, a lot of entities have been bashed a bit over the timing of their breach disclosures. As someone who tracks breaches, it became almost a given that I would find…

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