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Hit with extortion demand after job applicants’ data hacked, Drake International refuses to pay

Posted on January 9, 2013 by Dissent

Christine Dobby reports: Drake International, the Canadian-based job placement firm, confirmed Wednesday that it has been the victim of a hacking scheme by a group seeking to extort payment in exchange for not releasing the personal information of people who have used Drake’s services. […] The hackers that contacted Drake on Monday, made their threats…

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Follow-up: Dun & Bradstreet Unit Fined, Former Employees Sentenced

Posted on January 9, 2013 by Dissent

The Shanghai Roadway Dun & Bradstreet Marketing Services Co. Ltd breach currently holds the unenviable distinction of being the largest recorded breach in DataLossDB’s database.  In March 2012, we learned that law enforcement was investigating whether the company had illegally collected and sold 150,000,000 people’s information. Dun & Bradstreet responded by suspending its Chinese service…

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Some reputation hits are deserved

Posted on January 9, 2013 by Dissent

Access Securepak  explains its service as  a “program designed to allow family members and friends to send packages to inmates.” On Monday, their parent corporation, Centric Group, notified the California Attorney General’s Office of a breach that may have started back in August 2010 but was only recently discovered. The irony of a company name that…

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No one’s to blame? I beg to disagree.

Posted on January 8, 2013 by Dissent

Another data theft in the education sector. And yet again, no one did anything wrong because there was never any policy. Yesterday I added a breach to DataLossDB involving the Morgan Road Middle School in Georgia. A flash drive with unencrypted student information, including SSNs, was stolen from an teacher’s unattended car. A gradebook was…

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Panasonic Czech Republic and Slovakia Hacked, Defaced & Data Leaked

Posted on January 7, 2013 by Lee J

Turkish Ajan Hacker group member @Maxn3y has contacted us with the first large breach of the year by them. The breach is on another electronic giant  this time Panasonic Czech Republic and Slovakia sites have become targets in @Maxn3ys on going spree of hacks which started mid 2011. The attack has left Panasonic websites for both country’s defaced but more for Czech republic with…

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University of North Carolina servers hacked; 3,500 employees’ data accessed

Posted on January 7, 2013 by Dissent

It seems that the University of North Carolina has had yet another data breach. And although the breach was discovered in May, it took about 7 months for those affected to be notified. Jane Stancill reports: Some 3,500 people had their personal information exposed when hackers hit two servers of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer…

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