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Sony insurer sues to deny data breach coverage

Posted on July 21, 2011 by Dissent

Ben Berkowitz reports: One of Sony Corp’s insurers has asked a court to declare that it does not have to pay to defend the media and electronics conglomerate from mounting legal claims related to a massive data breach earlier this year. Zurich American Insurance Co asked a New York state court in documents filed late…

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LulzSec Hacks The Times with Brutal Murdoch Death Notice

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Dissent

Brian Barrett reports: Well, seems like LulzSec has returned, and moved beyond the DDOS attack! Not content to merely shut down one of Rupert Murdoch’s paper’s websites, the hacking group has instead planted a bizarro-Onionesque account of the mogul’s death-by-palladium on a Times redesign page masquerading as The Sun. Well played, #AntiSec. Read more on Gizmodo. As to why I’m…

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Ru: Megafon screws up and users’ SMS messages get indexed by a search engine

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Dissent

Eugene Kapersky writes: One of the biggest Russian mobile operators Megafon with 57+ million user base leaked the users’ SMS history. Thousands of messages are now available online that caused a major nation-wide scandal. There is another company that may have been involved in the issue – Yandex, the biggest national search engine that could have indexed either some classified storage or SMS…

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JLAudio responds to hack; notifies consumers to change their passwords

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Dissent

I’ve heard back from JLAudio, who confirms that they were hacked.  A spokesperson for the firm indicates that the hacked database is maintained by a third party vendor whom they declined to name.  The site was used by customers to upload pictures of their cars showing their JLAudio systems.  The picture gallery has been removed…

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Hacker: JLAudio database hacked; users’ information posted online

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Dissent

The hacker known as Abhaxas (@Abhaxas on Twitter) has uploaded a database with what appears to be 4,827 JLAudio’s users’ first and last names, street addresses with city and zipcode, ages, userIDs, e-mail addresses, and plain text passwords. In a preface to the data dump, Abhaxas writes: I warned you guys multiple times, but it…

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Toshiba confirms they were hacked; customers notified

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Dissent

Last week I noted that Toshiba appeared to have been hacked.  Now they’ve confirmed it.  John Oates reports: Toshiba says that unidentified hackers have stolen customer records belonging to 7,500 of its customers. Credit cards details were not compromised, but emails, addresses, passwords and phone numbers all went missing. Read more on The Register. A press release…

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