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Former Iberdrola employee charged in April breach

Posted on July 9, 2013 by Dissent

So it looks like the Iberdrola breach, reported in April, was a disgruntled employee situation after all.  Steve Orr reports: In mid-April, an RG&E corporate parent announced that a computer intruder had compromised the privacy of job applicants’ personal data. Coming a year after another computer-privacy foul up involving Rochester Gas and Electric Corp., the…

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Statement of Public.Resource.Org on IRS web exposure of tens of thousands of SSNs

Posted on July 8, 2013 by Dissent

From their web site: Public.Resource.Org has discovered that the Internal Revenue Service has posted the Social Security Numbers of tens of thousands of Americans on government web sites. The database in question contains the filings of Section 527 political organizations such as campaign committees. This Section 527 database is an essential tool used by journalists, watchdog groups, congressional staffers,…

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Appeals Court Sends Fiserv Data Breach Case Back to Trial

Posted on July 8, 2013 by Dissent

Robert McGarvey reports that a credit union’s lawsuit against Fiserv has been resurrected by a Tennessee court: The Court of Appeals in Tennessee, in a ruling filed July 3, ruled that a lower court erred when it dismissed a suit filed by Copper Basin Federal Credit Union and CUMIS against Fiserv Inc., wherein the plaintiffs…

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Vendini hack update

Posted on June 28, 2013 by Dissent

Back on May 22, this blog reported that Vendini, an online ticketing service provider,  had experienced a hack on March 29 that they detected on April 25.   Names, addresses, email addresses, credit card numbers and credit card expiration dates were on the hacked server. The firm started notifying its clients during the week of May 21,…

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Data on 40,000 US Soldiers Stolen in South Korea Cyber-Attack – Claim

Posted on June 27, 2013 by Dissent

Edward Smith reports: Cyber-attacks were staged on Tuesday, 25 June, marking the anniversary of the start of the Korean War in 1950. The hackers compromised the websites of South Korea’s presidential office and several local newspapers. The unidentified hackers claimed to have obtained personal data belonging to two million South Korean workers and 40,000 US…

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Iowa DHS discloses that backup tape with PHI of former patients at Mental Health Institute and state employees is missing

Posted on June 26, 2013 by Dissent

Rod Boshart reports: Iowa Department of Human Services officials issued an alert Wednesday to former patients at the Mental Health Institute in Independence and hundreds of state employees there and at other state facilities concerning a possible breach of their confidential information. Officials say the information was stored on a backup computer tape that went…

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