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Appeals court absolves firm that exposed man’s SSN

Posted on June 7, 2010 by Dissent

What constitutes a privacy harm? For those of us covering data breaches and privacy breaches, there’s been a somewhat disturbing trend by courts to restrict  the notion of “harm” to unreimbursed financial harm due to a breach. Worry, embarrassment, time lost, and increased risk of future harm are recognized as being consequences, but generally, plaintiffs…

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In: BPO employee held for data theft

Posted on June 5, 2010 by Dissent

A young computer engineer was nabbed by the company authorities for data theft from the company computer and uploading it on another data sharing site for future use. He was nabbed by city cyber cell officials on Saturday. According to cyber cell officials, they had received a complaint from Satellite police station officials where Anand…

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ACH Fraud Sparks Another Suit

Posted on June 5, 2010 by Dissent

Linda McGlasson reports: In another round of bank vs. customer, a Maine business has sued its bank, alleging that the institution failed to prevent fraudulent ACH transactions totaling more than $500,000. Patco, a Sanford, Maine-based construction company, had its corporate bank account raided over a six-day period last May by cyber thieves who were able…

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IN: Local restaurant targeted by online hackers

Posted on June 5, 2010 by Dissent

Kimberly King reports: A local restaurant reports a security breach affecting its customers. Hackers tapped into the credit card machines at Marco’s, stealing credit and debit card numbers from several customers, wiping out their bank accounts. Like any weeknight at Marco’s Restaurant, owner Mark Poulos was busy with loyal customers who’ve been coming there for…

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Digital River sues over data breach

Posted on June 4, 2010 by Dissent

Dan Browning reports: A massive data theft from the e-commerce company Digital River Inc. has led investigators to hackers in India and a 20-year-old in New York who allegedly tried to sell the information to a Colorado marketing firm for half a million dollars. The Eden Prairie company obtained a secret court order last month…

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Brew HaHa! breach no laughing matter

Posted on June 1, 2010 by Dissent

To follow up on a potential class-action lawsuit against POSitouch and its reseller, CC Productions , DataBreaches.net spoke with the founder of Brew HaHa!, one of the clients in the possible lawsuit. Brew HaHa! is a 10-store espresso chain in Delaware and Pennsylvania, and the breach has not been previously reported anywhere.  Another client, who…

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