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Personal info of almost 100,000 people exposed through flaw on site for student transcripts

Posted on October 21, 2014 by Dissent

Ashkan Soltani, Julie Tate and Ellen Nakashima report: The personal information of almost 100,000 people seeking their high school transcripts was recently exposed on a Web site that helps students obtain their records. The site, NeedMyTranscript.com, facilitates requests from all 50 states and covers more than 18,000 high schools around the country, according to its Web…

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KR: Personal data of 7.45 million Pandora TV users accessed by hackers

Posted on October 21, 2014 by Dissent

Yikes. How did I miss this one? On October 15, Yonhap News reported: South Korea’s video sharing web operator Pandora TV Co. said Wednesday more than 114,000 items of personal data were leaked from its webpage while hackers accessed some 7.45 million items of private information. […] The leaked data includes user names, names, encoded…

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NZ: Legal firm divulges private files

Posted on October 21, 2014 by Dissent

Phil Kitchin reports: A lawyer’s practice used clients’ sensitive files as recycling paper for photocopying – and posted out hundreds of pages of private and confidential details about their cases. The details, sent to a former client who requested a copy of her own file, include names and addresses of people involved in suppressed court…

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Wyndham Execs Escape Derivative Suit Over Cyberattacks

Posted on October 21, 2014 by Dissent

Beth Winegarner reports that a shareholder’s lawsuit filed against Wyndham over its data breaches has been dismissed: A New Jersey federal judge on Monday threw out a Wyndham Worldwide Corp. shareholder’s derivative action over a series of security breaches, finding no evidence that Wyndham’s Kirkland & Ellis LLP attorneys had a conflict of interest when…

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Banks: Credit Card Breach at Staples Stores

Posted on October 20, 2014 by Dissent

Brian Krebs reports: Multiple banks say they have identified a pattern of credit and debit card fraud suggesting that several Staples Inc. office supply locations in the Northeastern United States are currently dealing with a data breach. Staples says it is investigating “a potential issue” and has contacted law enforcement. According to more than a half-dozen sources at banks operating on the East…

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Three Atlanta federal judges recuse themselves from Home Depot data breach lawsuits

Posted on October 20, 2014 by Dissent

David Allison reports: Some of the lawsuits hitting The Home Depot Inc. over its recent data breach are apparently hitting too close to home for some federal judges in Atlanta. Home Depot (NYSE: HD) is facing at least 21 lawsuits stemming from the data breach, which reportedly may affect 60 million customers. More than a dozen of the lawsuits…

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