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Hackers demand EUR150K ‘idiot tax’ from Dexia in return for stolen customer data

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Dissent

A group claiming to have hacked a Dexia Bank subsidiary’s database is threatening to post sensitive customer information unless it receives an “idiot tax” of EUR150,000 by Friday. In a pastebin statement addressed to the media, the unnamed group says it has “downloaded extensive confidential customer information” from servers belonging to Elantis, a mortgage and consumer credit…

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Global Payments breach went on for at least 8 months – revised estimate

Posted on May 1, 2012 by Dissent

Brian Krebs has an update on the Global Payments breach: A hacker break-in at credit and debit card processor Global Payments Inc. dates back to at least early June 2011, Visa and MasterCard warned in updated alerts sent to card-issuing banks in the past week. The disclosures offer the first additional details about the length of the breach since Global Payments…

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Vol State: Personal information found vulnerable for 14,000 students, faculty

Posted on April 30, 2012 by Dissent

About 14,000 students, former students and faculty at Volunteer State Community College in Gallatin had personal information placed on a web server that was not secure. The files placed on the web included names and Social Security numbers, but university officials say there is no evidence that any of that information has been accessed or…

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ICANN to notify domain applicants of data breaches

Posted on April 30, 2012 by Dissent

Georgina Prodhan of Reuters reports: Organizations taking part in the most ambitious expansion of the Internet so far will find out next week whether their applications for new domain names could have been viewed by competitors as a result of a software bug. […] Beckstrom said he was confident the glitch in the system had…

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Columbia U. notifies faculty and proprietors that their SSN and bank account numbers were exposed on the Internet for two years

Posted on April 30, 2012 by Dissent

A reader kindly alerted me to the fact that Columbia University sent out breach notices last week.   The letter, dated April 21, informed recipients that 3,000 current and former employees, as well as 500 sole proprietors had their names, addresses, Social Security numbers and bank account numbers exposed on the Internet. The  names of…

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CA: Tossed tax files found

Posted on April 30, 2012 by Dissent

Beatriz E. Valenzuela reports that a bag of discarded tax files was found behind a Hesperia business. Thankfully, it was found by someone in law enforcement: “It was a black canvas bag full of payroll files,” Hill said, with personal information such as Social Security numbers. “There were 12 to 14 bundles of files and…

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