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Data breach notification fatigue: Do consumers (eventually) tune out?

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Dissent

George V. Hulme writes: Earlier this month more than 50 companies were involved in a massive heist of names and email addresses from Epsilon Interactive. With millions of customers of companies such as Best Buy, Brookestone, Dell, Marriott and many others affected, the question is being raised: are so many breach notifications from so many…

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FR: Hacker arrested after TV brag

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Dissent

From the unchecked-ego dept. Hundreds of bank card details have been found at the home of a computer hacker who boasted on TV of how he could break into the systems of the army and aerospace group Thalès. Thalès pressed charges after the program Complément d’enquête on France 2 showed the man breaking into their…

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Hacker breaks into Barracuda Networks database

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Dissent

Robert McMillan reports: A hacker has broken into a Barracuda Networks database and obtained names and e-mail addresses of some of the security company’s employees, channel partners and sales leads. The hacker, who called himself Fdf, posted proof of his attack to the Web on Monday, showing e-mail addresses of company employees and names, e-mail addresses,…

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Hyundai Capital in South Korea to notify 420,000 customers of data breach; Financial watchdog opens investigation

Posted on April 11, 2011 by Dissent

Ju-min Park of Reuters reports: South Korea’s financial watchdog launched an investigation on Monday into the leak of personal information from South Korea’s Hyundai Capital, the consumer finance unit of Hyundai Motor Group, a Financial Supervisory Service official said. Hyundai Capital said personal information on about 420,000 of its 1.8 million customers was leaked when…

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Readers question whether Epsilon breach was really names and email addresses only (updated to include response from Epsilon)

Posted on April 11, 2011 by Dissent

From comments under another blog entry, it seems clear that a lot of people are not believing Epsilon’s assurance that the breach involved names and email addresses only. I received the following email, which I am reproducing except for redacting the name of the sender and the name of the Epsilon employee and their phone…

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Ca: Haldimand man facing 138 credit card fraud charges

Posted on April 11, 2011 by Dissent

Canadian Press reports: A 22-year-old man is facing nearly 140 charges after a credit card fraud at a New Credit First Nation gas station in Hagersville. Police say between Dec. 16 and Dec. 28, a credit card fraud was discovered at the New Credit Variety and Gas Bar. In total, 41 people had been defrauded…

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