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DocuSign user information found through Google search (updated)

Posted on June 9, 2012 by Dissent

Oops.  AGBeat reports: As the world’s largest electronic signature platform, DocuSign says that they have over 6 million unique signers processing millions of transactions per year and that they are “trusted by more people, more companies, more times than any other electronic signature provider in the world.” In just one search query in particular, we uncovered 4,450…

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Millions of LinkedIn passwords posted online; company’s response criticized

Posted on June 9, 2012 by Dissent

The online professional networking website LinkedIn has confirmed that “some” of its users’ passwords were stolen when it was hacked today, but the person responsible says it’s almost 6.5 million. In a blog post earlier this morning, the LinkedIn team posted: “We can confirm that some of the passwords that were compromised correspond to LinkedIn…

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City laptop with residents’ data stolen from library

Posted on June 9, 2012 by Dissent

The New Haven Register reports on a laptop theft that occurred on May 23: A laptop used by an Elderly Services Specialist to input data for the Rent Rebate program was stolen recently from the Mitchell Branch Library, but there is no reason to believe anyone has accessed the data stored on the laptop, city…

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No evidence that Pharmacist.com hack involved patient records (updated)

Posted on June 9, 2012 by Dissent

As I had suggested previously in several tweets, those involved in the hack of Pharmacist.com may not have understood some of the data were that they acquired in the hack.  They certainly didn’t understand the nature of their target. In a statement disclosing the hack, reproduced on CyberWarNews.info, the hackers had written: In an effort…

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TN: Personal Records Found in Dumpster

Posted on June 9, 2012 by Dissent

Some breaches make me want to curse. This news report out of Sevierville, Sevier County in Tennessee makes me want to yell, “When the hell are businesses going to start getting fined for just dumping unshredded files with PII?” … Kim Pierce runs a video store in Sevierville and was shocked at what she found…

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University of Virginia gaffe exposes student applications with Social Security Numbers

Posted on June 6, 2012 by Dissent

Ted Strong reports: Roughly 300 transcripts, some containing complete Social Security numbers, were accessible through a University of Virginia website on Tuesday morning due to an as-yet unspecified human error, university officials have confirmed. The incident came to light when a student conducting a Google search for an image of himself found his transcript online….

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