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Hershey says data breach compromised guests’ payment card information

Posted on July 10, 2015 by Dissent

AP is reporting that Hershey Entertainment & Resorts says a data breach may have exposed the financial information of some visitors to its Pennsylvania hotels, amusement park and other venues. Cards used at its properties between Feb. 14 and June 2 may have been compromised: Hershey, which operates The Hotel Hershey, Hersheypark Entertainment complex and other facilities,…

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What were you doing at age 13? This hacker-for-hire almost broke the internet

Posted on July 10, 2015 by Dissent

Ian Proctor reports: Bedroom geek Seth Nolan-Mcdonagh joined a network of virtual vandals who brought global institutions’ websites to their knees. He was the second hacker to be sentenced today as Madonna’s Rebel Heart hacker Adi Leaderman was jailed for 14 months. […] Adopting the pseudonym Narko, Nolan-Mcdonagh made £70,000 by using software to overload the sites and…

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NY: Credit card information stolen from Hoffman Car Wash

Posted on July 9, 2015 by Dissent

Lindsay Nielsen reports: A local car wash is the victim of hackers, and the criminals are already using the cloned cards. A Guilderland woman, who did not want to be identified, said she’s been the victim of credit card fraud at two different car washes: the first at Colonial Car Wash, and most recently, at…

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Owner of Louisiana Automotive Businesses Pleads Guilty for Role in Stolen Identity Refund Fraud Scheme

Posted on July 9, 2015 by Dissent

A resident of Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, and the owner of two automotive businesses pleaded guilty today for his involvement in a stolen identity refund fraud scheme, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite Jr. of the Eastern District of Louisiana. Martin Jackson…

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LA: Former Systems Administrator Charged With Intentionally Damaging Computers

Posted on July 9, 2015 by Dissent

July 1 – United States Attorney Walt Green announced that former Georgia-Pacific IT specialist and systems administrator BRIAN P. JOHNSON, age 43, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was arrested this morning after his indictment last week by a federal grand jury for intentionally damaging protected computers.  The indictment charges that, from February 14, 2014 through February…

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Two US telecom companies to pay $3.5 million for data breach

Posted on July 9, 2015 by Dissent

Grant Gross reports: Two sister mobile and telecom service providers will pay a combined US$3.5 million after the U.S. Federal Communications Commission found that they were storing customers’ personal data on unprotected servers accessible over the Internet. TerraCom and YourTel America failed to adequately protect the personal information of more than 300,000 customers, the FCC…

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