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Ex-Yahoo employee admits leaking information to author of Marissa Mayer book

Posted on August 18, 2015 by Dissent

Matt O’Brien reports: In a case that sends a chilling message to gossipy Silicon Valley tech workers, a former Yahoo employee has admitted in court papers that she broke her employment agreement by leaking confidential information to a journalist who wrote a book about CEO Marissa Mayer. Cecile Lal, sued by Yahoo in May for…

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Target Reaches Settlement With Visa Over 2013 Data Breach

Posted on August 18, 2015 by Dissent

Bree Fowler of Associated Press reports: Target has reached a deal to pay up to $67 million to settle Visa claims related to a massive 2013 data breach that resulted in the theft of millions of debit and credit card numbers. Both Target Corp. and Visa Inc. confirmed the agreement Tuesday, but wouldn’t put a…

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Planet Fitness accuses former employee of stealing personnel data

Posted on August 18, 2015 by Dissent

Scott Dolan reports: The parent company of the popular Planet Fitness gym chain Monday fired a Maine man who worked as its payroll manager, accusing him of stealing “highly sensitive personal and financial information” about its employees. Planet Fitness, based in Newington, New Hampshire, made the accusations public in a lawsuit filed against the fired…

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NL: “Bored” former Jumbo employee gets community service, fine, for hacking firm’s computers

Posted on August 17, 2015 by Dissent

Janene Van Jaarsveldt reports: A company inspector working at the Jumbo supermarket chain has to pay 30 thousand euros in compensation for hacking into nearly 100 corporate laptops. The court in Den Bosch made this ruling on Monday, Omroep Brabant reports. The 37 year old man from Helmond was also sentenced to 120 hours of…

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Uber To Boost Security Staff After Data Privacy Concerns

Posted on August 17, 2015 by Dissent

Aditya Tejas reports: Ride-sharing service Uber Technologies Inc. will increase its security team by about fourfold to over 100 employees to quell concerns about data privacy and accessibility, the company’s new chief security officer said Sunday.   […]In February, the company reported a major data breach that compromised the personal information of about 50,000 drivers. A report from the…

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Missing Link breach impacted 250,000?

Posted on August 17, 2015 by Dissent

Jeff Quackenbush has a piece in Business Journal. I’m not sure where he got his figures from, but he reports: A recent theft of personal and financial records on about a quarter-million winery customers via a data breach at a Calistoga-based direct-to-consumer sales and marketing software company is raising questions about common winery approaches to…

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