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NJ: Tax preparer sentenced for selling clients’ personal information

Posted on April 24, 2015 by Dissent

Isaac Avilucea reports: Two-faced is the way a county prosecutor described city tax worker Lee Roberts II, who sold Mercer County residents’ personal information to a convicted felon and “known fraudster” turned cooperating witness for $200 in 2011. “He had a public face, and he had a private face,” Assistant Prosecutor James Scott said of…

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Judge sentences foreign hacker for first time ever in US

Posted on April 23, 2015 by Dissent

There’s an update to a case previously noted on this site. Jessica Masulli Reyes reports: David Pokora, 22, of Ontario, Canada, was sentenced to 18 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. […] The group was responsible for stealing over $100 million worth of intellectual property from major technology companies, including Microsoft,…

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Banks seek to block Target’s deal with MasterCard over data breach

Posted on April 23, 2015 by Dissent

Reuters reports: A group of small banks and credit unions suing Target Corp over its massive data breach in 2013 are moving to block the retailer’s proposed $19 million settlement with MasterCard Inc, calling it a “sweetheart deal” aimed at undercutting their own claims for losses. Lawyers for plaintiffs in the lawsuit, which seeks class-action…

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Massive TalkTalk data breach STILL causing customer scam tsunami

Posted on April 23, 2015 by Dissent

Kat Hall reports: A fresh wave of scammers appear to be targeting TalkTalk customers, following a massive data theft earlier this year, The Register has learned. In February, TalkTalk admitted to suffering a major breach into its users’ sensitive information, which may have led to some customers handing over bank data to hackers. Read more on The Register.

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Unhappy Third Birthday to My Experian Complaint?

Posted on April 23, 2015 by Dissent

Three years ago today, I filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission about  Experian’s data breaches. Back then, I knew about 60 breaches of their credit reporting database due to client login credentials being misused. There were also other breaches of their database involving people being able to authenticate as others to obtain  credit reports,…

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Hyatt Gold Passport notifies a small number of loyalty program members of possible breach (update2)

Posted on April 22, 2015 by Dissent

Hyatt is sending some customers enrolled in their loyalty points program, Gold Passport, notification of a possible breach of their information. As with some other loyalty card breach reports we’ve seen recently, Hyatt’s notification indicates that there is no evidence that their system was breached and that the miscreants may have obtained customers’ login credentials from other sources…

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