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Ca: 1,100 Hamilton residents’ emails compromised following data breach

Posted on April 21, 2018 by Dissent

Lisa Polewski reports: The emails of about 1,100 residents have been compromised following a data breach of two waste collection apps, according to the city of Hamilton. Municipal Media Inc., the service provider for Recycle Coach and My Waste, reported the data breach to the city and several other municipalities earlier this week. Read more…

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A Private Intelligence Platform, LocalBlox, Leaked 48 Million Personal Data Records

Posted on April 18, 2018 by Dissent

New from UpGuard: The UpGuard Cyber Risk Team can now confirm that a cloud storage repository containing information belonging to LocalBlox, a personal and business data search service, was left publicly accessible, exposing 48 million records of detailed personal information on tens of millions of individuals, gathered and scraped from multiple sources. This data includes…

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INM Data Breach: Main players brace for what’s next in crisis

Posted on April 18, 2018 by Dissent

Eamon Quinn reports: Ireland’s largest publishing firm, the stock market-listed Independent News and Media, has been thrown into crisis amid serious allegations by the State’s corporate enforcer that include claims of governance misdeeds and email hacks. Read more on Irish Examiner.

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A North Carolina Federal Court Allows A Treble Damages Claim In Employee Data-Breach Lawsuit

Posted on April 17, 2018 by Dissent

Alex Pearce of Ellis & Winters LLP writes: As we have explored before, a common scam known as “W-2 phishing” can put companies in the crosshairs for data-breach lawsuits brought by their employees. In honor of Tax Day, today’s post examines an interesting recent decision from a North Carolina federal court in one of these…

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TaskRabbit Takes Down App and Website After Getting Hacked

Posted on April 17, 2018 by Dissent

Catalin Cimpanu reports: TaskRabbit, a web-based service that connects freelance handymen with clients in various local US markets, has emailed customers admitting it suffered a security breach. The company has taken down its app and website while law enforcement and a private cyber-security firm are investigating the incident. The hack appears to have taken place…

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Hackers once stole a casino’s high-roller database through a thermometer in the lobby fish tank

Posted on April 16, 2018 by Dissent

Oscar Williams-Grut reports: Hackers are increasingly targeting “internet of things” devices to access corporate systems, using things like CCTV cameras or air-conditioning units, according to the CEO of a cybersecurity firm. ….  Eagan gave one memorable anecdote about a case Darktrace worked on in which a casino was hacked via a thermometer in an aquarium…

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