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JP: Benesse customer info sold immediately after data theft: police

Posted on July 14, 2014 by Dissent

Mainichi reports: The culprit behind the theft of customer data from correspondence education giant Benesse always intended to sell the information, and did so almost immediately, the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) believes. A source close to the case has told the Mainichi Shimbun that a systems engineer from a subcontractor managing a Benesse Holdings Inc….

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TX: Apartment complex residents private files found in dumpster

Posted on July 14, 2014 by Dissent

Damall Keith reports: It was thrown away like trash, folders full of personal information. What do you think? Is your social security number, salary and employment information trash? One company now has some explaining to do after private files were found in a dumpster. ”Copies of drivers license, copies of social security cards, banking information,”…

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Houstonian Hotel suffers security breach, credit card information may have been exposed

Posted on July 9, 2014 by Dissent

Olivia Pusinelli reports: The Houstonian Hotel, Club & Spa told guests this week it suffered a six-month “malicious software attack” that could have exposed credit card information, according to reports. The Houston Chronicle and KTRK ABC 13 report that the attack lasted from Dec. 28 to June 20 and that the U.S. Secret Service notified the hotel of…

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AU: Police swoop on alleged taxi credit card fraud syndicate in Sydney

Posted on July 9, 2014 by Dissent

Rose Powell reports: A fraud racket with the potential to steal the credit card details of hundreds of Sydney taxi users has been dismantled following police raids. Several members of the group were arrested last week in a card-cloning den set up in a motel room in Chullora. Some 800 blank credit cards, as well as…

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Update: Vodafone alerts privacy watchdog

Posted on July 9, 2014 by Dissent

Tom Pullar-Strecker and Siobhan Downes report: Vodafone says it has informed the Privacy Commissioner about a data breach identified by a customer yesterday. The customer said he had been able to access details of other people’s Vodafone’s accounts, including personal information, their internet usage and credit-card details by using a default password. Vodafone spokeswoman Emma Carter…

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Vermont Attorney General Fines Local Business For Failing To Notify Consumers Of Security Breach

Posted on July 9, 2014 by Dissent

Shelburne Country Store in Shelburne, Vermont will pay a $3,000 civil penalty for failing to inform 721 internet buyers of a security breach of their credit card information. In late 2013, the company’s website was hacked and credit card information stolen. Upon being informed of the breach in January 2014, the company quickly fixed the problem, but…

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