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PA: Police investigate hacking threat against Pine Forge Academy

Posted on December 19, 2014 by Dissent

Ryan Hughes reports: Pennsylvania State Police are investigating a $1 million hacking threat against Pine Forge Academy in Berks County. The school received an anonymous email on Dec. 16 at the campus in Douglass Township. It threatened harm against its computer system and property if demands were not met, state police said Friday. “This person was…

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Staples Provides Update on Data Security Incident: 1.6M potentially affected

Posted on December 19, 2014 by Dissent

From their press release: FRAMINGHAM, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Staples, Inc. (Nasdaq: SPLS) today gave an update on the investigation into its previously announced data security incident involving a small percentage of its retail point-of-sale systems. Staples’ data security experts detected that criminals deployed malware to some point-of-sale systems at 115 of its more than 1,400 U.S. retail…

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Target Averts Most – But Not All – Claims Over Data Breach

Posted on December 19, 2014 by Dissent

Jack Bouboushian reports: A federal judge dismissed most consumer-negligence claims against Target for cybersecurity failures that resulted in a massive data breach last year. […] Magnuson dismissed the majority of those claims Thursday after finding that some consumers’ states do not permit the remedy they seek. While plaintiffs have shown that they suffered pecuniary damages…

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Presidian Hotels & Resorts releases information about data breach investigation

Posted on December 19, 2014 by Dissent

Visalia, California (December 19, 2014): Officials of Presidian Hotels & Resorts (Presidian), an independent hotel management company, announce the suspected breach of the point-of-sale system from the period July 26, 2014 – September 2, 2014 at food and beverage outlets such as the restaurant at the Visalia Marriott at the Convention Center Hotel, in Visalia,…

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KeyPoint suffers computer breach, potentially exposing thousands of federal workers

Posted on December 18, 2014 by Dissent

Drew Hansen reports that one of the companies that took on more background checks for the federal Office of Personnel Management after USIS‘s breach has had its own breach: Federal officials are saying the personal information of thousands of employees has been compromised by a computer breach at KeyPoint Government Solutions Inc., according to reports. The…

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Maricopa County colleges computer hack cost tops $26M (so far)

Posted on December 18, 2014 by Dissent

Mary Beth Faller reports: The Maricopa County Community College District continues to deal with fallout from the massive computer-system breach last year, and the latest figures show the cost to taxpayers to deal with it has now topped $26 million. Read more on The Arizona Republic. To date, the MCCCD breach stands as the largest…

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