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Hyatt Hotels Suffers 2nd Card Breach in 2 Years

Posted on October 12, 2017 by Dissent

Brian Krebs reports: Hyatt Corp. is alerting customers about another credit card breach at some hotels, the second major incident with the hospitality chain in as many years. Hyatt said its cyber security team discovered signs of unauthorized access to payment card information from cards manually entered or swiped at the front desk of certain Hyatt-managed locations between…

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Equifax: Umm, actually hackers stole records of 15.2 million Brits, not 400,000

Posted on October 12, 2017 by Dissent

David Bisson writes: Equifax has confirmed that a recent data breach exposed a file containing 15.2 million UK personal information records. On 10 October 2017, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) confirmed the Equifax data breach disclosed in September 2017 actually compromised 15.2 million UK records. That’s considerably more than 400,000, the number of consumers…

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U.S. Supreme Court declines to review computer hacking cases

Posted on October 11, 2017 by Dissent

Andrew Chung reports: The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday sidestepped a growing controversy over who can give permission to access a computer, a debate that goes to the core of what constitutes hacking in this era of widespread use of the internet and social media. The justices turned away two cases over whether it is…

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Accenture left a huge trove of highly sensitive data on exposed servers

Posted on October 10, 2017 by Dissent

Zack Whittaker reports: Technology and cloud giant Accenture has confirmed it inadvertently left a massive store of private data across four unsecured cloud servers, exposing highly sensitive passwords and secret decryption keys that could have inflicted considerable damage on the company and its customers. The servers, hosted on Amazon’s S3 storage service, contained hundreds of…

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Deloitte hack hit server containing emails from across US government

Posted on October 10, 2017 by Dissent

Nick Hopkins reports: The hack into the accountancy giant Deloitte compromised a server that contained the emails of an estimated 350 clients, including four US government departments, the United Nations and some of the world’s biggest multinationals, the Guardian has been told. Sources with knowledge of the hack say the incident was potentially more widespread…

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VTech asks court to dismiss class action lawsuit over data breach

Posted on October 9, 2017 by Dissent

Paul Tassin reports: VTech is seeking dismissal of a consolidated litigation over a data breach that exposed the personal information of millions of parents and children. The company filed its motion for dismissal on October 5, asking an Illinois federal court to dismiss a group of lawsuits filed by several parents and children who say…

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