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Russian gang used customized virus bought from hacker forum on ATMs

Posted on December 2, 2010 by Dissent

Members of an organized criminal group responsible for infecting ATMs with a computer virus have been arrested in Yakutsk, capital of the far eastern Russian Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) according to the Ministry of the Interior. The leader of the gang sought the services of a hacker through an international Internet forum. Once recruited the…

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WA: ID theft bonanza left unsecured at state building

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Dissent

Tracy Vedder reports: TACOMA, Wash. — When we handed Lyle Lippel a set of documents that could have been used to steal his identity and cause financial ruin he said it was crazy and scary that the papers were so easy to find. Lippel’s private information was in a pile of paperwork dumped in plain…

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Shell Vacation Resorts investigating security breach at some of their properties

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Dissent

Shell Vacation Resorts, which owns 26 properties in nine U.S. states, Canada, and Mexico, has been investigating a security breach at some of their properties that resulted in credit card fraud for an unspecified number of their guests and employees. An FAQ on the incident indicates that the breach occurred between June 2010 and October…

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Liechtenstein Bank Data May Be Used in Probe, German Court Says

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Dissent

Karin Matussek reports: Stolen Liechtenstein bank account data may be used to by prosecutors justify a search warrant in a criminal probe, Germany’s top constitutional court ruled. Data which may have been stolen from a Liechtenstein bank and later sold to German authorities can be used by a judge when authorizing prosecutors to raid homes…

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TX: Pile of Sensitive Documents Found Near Bridge

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Dissent

Farrah Fazal reports: … Hundreds of documents with personal information were found tossed near a bridge and could have ended up in the wrong hands. In the pile of papers were receipts, invoices and canceled checks. There were also phone numbers, addresses, drivers licenses and a Social Security card. Most of the papers that were…

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FL: Thousands of voters’ personal information left in dumpster

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Dissent

Michael George reports that  1,000 to 2,000 voters’ petitions were dumped, unshredded,  in a dumpster in Hillsborough County. … The petitions are essentially meaningless, since Norman got on the ballot anyway, but they contained voters’ names, voter registration numbers, addresses, dates of birth, political affiliation, and signature. […] So who dumped the petitions? The Hillsborough County…

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