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Nine Iranians Charged With Conducting Massive Cyber Theft Campaign on Behalf of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

Posted on March 23, 2018 by Dissent

An Indictment charging Gholamreza Rafatnejad, 38; Ehsan Mohammadi, 37; Abdollah Karima, aka Vahid Karima, 39; Mostafa Sadeghi, 28; Seyed Ali Mirkarimi, 34; Mohammed Reza Sabahi, 26; Roozbeh Sabahi, 24; Abuzar Gohari Moqadam, 37; and Sajjad Tahmasebi, 30, all citizens and residents of Iran, was unsealed today.  The defendants were each leaders, contractors, associates, hackers-for-hire or…

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Class action suit vs. CenturyLink and DirecTV alleges customer data can be accessed via internet search

Posted on March 23, 2018 by Dissent

Nat Levy reports: A lawsuit against internet provider CenturyLink and AT&T-owned DirecTV alleges the companies fail to adequately protect personal customer data — to the point that it can be found through a simple internet search. The suit was filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Seattle and seeks class action status. The plaintiff, James Jantos,…

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San Diego City Attorney announces lawsuit against Experian over massive data breach

Posted on March 22, 2018 by Dissent

At first I thought the headline had  a typo and that they meant to name Equifax, but they do, indeed, mean Experian. This suit goes back to an incident previously covered on this site that involved Experian acquiring a company, Court Ventures, that had access to another company’s, InfoSearch’s database…. and a bad actor named…

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Expedia’s Orbitz says 880,000 payment cards hit in breach

Posted on March 20, 2018 by Dissent

Reuters reports: Orbitz, a subsidiary of online travel agency Expedia Inc (EXPE.O), said on Tuesday that hackers may have accessed personal information from about 880,000 payment cards. The unit said an investigation showed that the breach may have occurred between Jan. 1, 2016 and Dec. 22, 2017 for its partner platform and between Jan. 1,…

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Trusted Quid: Notification of Web Site Data Breach Affecting Loan Applicants

Posted on March 20, 2018 by Dissent

Scottish short-term loan provider Trusted Quid has issued a press release following discovery of a data breach that began in July, 2016: Trusted Quid, the short-term loans provider, reports that there has been a theft of data from unauthorised access to the Trusted Quid website. The incident relates to data directly entered by people applying…

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Suspending Cambridge Analytica and SCL Group from Facebook

Posted on March 19, 2018 by Dissent

So Facebook is still standing by their “this is not a breach” assertion. Stamos removed some of his earlier tweets on that, but this update from FB still sounds “tone deaf” to me. By Paul Grewal, VP & Deputy General Counsel of Facebook Update on March 17, 2018, 9:50 AM: The claim that this is a…

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