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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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Epic Games Gets Hacked

Posted on June 11, 2011 by Dissent

It seems like everyone these days are getting their sites hacked and their data compromised. Just yesterday we did a post about Codemasters getting hit in a fresh attack by hackers and yesterday afternoon I received this email from Epic Games: Our Epic Games web sites and forums were recently hacked. After some downtime, they’re back up…

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Novo Nordisk pays $1.725 million to resolve claims that sales representatives paid pharmacists for access to confidential patient information and to recommend their medications

Posted on June 11, 2011 by Dissent

It’s been an expensive week for Novo Nordisk. How expensive, you ask? How about $26.7 million to settle two government investigations? The following is a press release on the New York investigation about marketing and patient privacy: Novo Nordisk, Inc. has entered into a civil settlement agreement with the United States in which it has…

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