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Update on Best Buy breach: 4,000 customers possibly affected

Posted on February 7, 2009 by Dissent

Best Buy, who has reported two breaches in the last two months, has posted a notice on its web site about the recent West Palm Beach breach. The alert, linked from its home page, reads: Payment card information was allegedly stolen at Best Buy’s West Palm Beach store during November and December 2008 by a…

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LA Not-So-Confidential: Los Angeles Police Protective League alerts members to breach

Posted on February 7, 2009 by Dissent

DataBreaches.net obtained a copy of the letter sent by the Los Angeles Police Protective League to its members after the Los Angeles Police Department exposed confidential files concerning racial bias/profiling complaints against officers. The text of the letter follows: February 6, 2009 Dear Members and Friends: The League has been made aware of a serious…

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Add Dime Savings Bank of Williamsburgh to list….

Posted on February 7, 2009 by Dissent

Kid #1 came in last night and threw the letter down on my desk in disgust. For the second time since June, Dime Savings Bank of Williamsburgh had notified him that his debit card was being replaced due to a breach and that he would have to personally come in to the bank to activate…

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Huge bank card scam hits Bermuda

Posted on February 7, 2009 by Dissent

How curious…. Canadian Tire had told me that 2% of their customers’s cards had been misused as a result of the Heartland Payment Systems breach. Now another non-US entity mentions 2%. Have we gotten reports from any UK banks yet? Hundreds of debit and credit card customers in Bermuda have been dragged into one of…

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Confidential LAPD misconduct files mistakenly posted on Internet

Posted on February 7, 2009 by Dissent

Joel Rubin reports: The Los Angeles Police Commission violated its own strict privacy policy — and perhaps state law — on Friday, releasing a confidential report on the Internet that contained the names of hundreds of officers accused of racial profiling and other misconduct. The blunder, which police officials attributed to a clerical error, marks…

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WI: DOC Electric employees’ personal data auctioned off

Posted on February 6, 2009 by Dissent

The Wisconsin Office of Privacy Protection has posted notice of a breach that occurred on January 15, 2009 when DOC Electric assets were auctioned off by M&I Bank and a local auction house. Apparently the computers and file cabinets contained personal information on DOC Electric employees who were employed from the start of the business…

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