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Kr: SK loses more customer information

Posted on August 22, 2011 by Dissent

Kim Mi-ju reports: Cell phone numbers of 38,000 users of a discontinued traffic information service run by an affiliate of SK Group were leaked online and the company said yesterday that it completely deleted related data on Sunday. According to sources, a real-time traffic information text message and Web site service Entrac, operated by SK…

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FTC Approves Final Orders Settling Charges that Credit Report Resellers Allowed Hackers to Access Consumers’ Personal Information

Posted on August 22, 2011 by Dissent

From the FTC: Following a public comment period, the Federal Trade Commission has approved final orders settling charges against three credit report resellers, SettlementOne Credit Corporation; ACRAnet, Inc.; and Fajilan and Associates, Inc., also doing business as Statewide Credit Services. The FTC alleged the companies did not take reasonable information security steps to protect consumers’…

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Dialogic, Sikorsky, and Thompson Dunavant report recent breaches

Posted on August 20, 2011 by Dissent

A few recent breach reports  to the New Hampshire Attorney that did not garner media attention: On August 8, California-based Dialogic, Inc. sent out notifications to employees whose names and Social Security Numbers were on equipment stolen during a break-in on July 17. Also on August 8, Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation (a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation)…

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Thirty-one Gifts, two breaches, and a bunch of notification letters

Posted on August 20, 2011 by Dissent

It must be headache-inducing enough to investigate one security breach. To discover a second breach while investigating the first, well, pass the Prozac. On August 8 , lawyers for Ohio-headquartered Thirty-One Gifts, LLC notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that while investigating how administrative credentials had been misappropriated and used to transfer some consultants’…

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Epson Korea says 35 million 350,000 customers’ data hacked (updated)

Posted on August 20, 2011 by Dissent

Update: Yonhap News issued another story that puts the number at 350,000, but didn’t correct their original url, cited below. Good grief – yet another hack in South Korea affecting 35 million?!  Yonhap News Agency reports:  Epson Korea Co., the South Korean unit of Japan’s Seiko Epson Corp., said Saturday that its Web site has…

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Dropbox cloud was a haven for data thieves, researchers say

Posted on August 19, 2011 by Dissent

Yesterday, I posted an item about how the co-owners of Chocolate Emporium reported that a former employee stole their entire business platform and customer database, and used Dropbox as part of the incident. Here’s a related item by Tim Greene: Files entrusted to cloud-storage provider Dropbox were susceptible to unauthorized access via three attacks devised…

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