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Sourcebooks suffers credit card data breach (update2)

Posted on October 18, 2014 by Dissent

Dave Lewis writes: It wouldn’t be a Friday afternoon without a company sharing that they had suffered a data breach. Normally, I’m the first person to be sympathetic in this type of situation but, I have seen enough of these Friday disclosures that I’m starting to call bull spit on these. Just “starting,” Dave? What…

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Cyberswim notifying online customers of breach at web host (UPDATED)

Posted on October 14, 2014 by Dissent

Uh oh. Any consumer notification template that reports a breach due to malware injection on the web host’s server and/or includes [INSERT SITE NAME HERE] doesn’t bode well, especially when the compromise lasted for more than three months before being detected. See Cyberswim‘s template notification letter, here (pdf).  I don’t see any notification on their web site…

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Dropbox passwords leak: Hundreds of accounts hacked after third-party security breach (update – not Dropbox accounts)

Posted on October 14, 2014 by Dissent

Update: leaked login credentials claimed to be associated with Dropbox accounts are not Dropbox accounts, according to Dropbox. Rose Troup Buchanan reports: Hundreds of passwords to Dropbox accounts have been leaked in the latest security breach, with hackers threatening to release millions more account details in exchange for Bitcoin. Hackers, who were apparently able to access logins and…

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Benesse leak accused admits copying customer data, but says he did not know it was wrong

Posted on October 14, 2014 by Dissent

Kyodo News reports: A systems engineer on Tuesday admitted copying information about millions of customers from the computer servers of education service provider Benesse Corp., but he told a court he did not know the data was confidential. Masaomi Matsuzaki, 39, was appearing at the Tachikawa Branch of the Tokyo District Court, in the first…

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CA: Sausalito Yacht Club notifies members of breach

Posted on October 13, 2014 by Dissent

Well, this is tacky, at best. It appears some members of the Sausalito Yacht Club gained access to the membership roster. From the notification letter of October 4: We are writing to you because of an incident at the Sausalito Yacht Club on or about October 1, 2014,wherein several members gained unauthorized access to our…

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Home Depot now facing 21 class-action lawsuits over data breach

Posted on October 13, 2014 by Dissent

David Allison provides a litigation update here. The next question is how many of them will be dismissed because of lack of standing.

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