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Credit reference agency Equifax fined for security breach

Posted on September 19, 2018 by Dissent

From the Information Commissioner’s Office: The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) issued Equifax Ltd with a £500,000 fine for failing to protect the personal information of up to 15 million UK citizens during a cyber attack in 2017. The incident, which happened between 13 May and 30 July 2017 in the US, affected 146 million customers globally….

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Click2Gov Update: ICYMI Here’s The Latest

Posted on September 19, 2018 by Dissent

RBS is doing a great job of tracking the Click2Gov breaches.  In their most recent update, they report: It’s been three months since our original post was published and as feared, breaches of the Click2Gov system continue to be reported. Here is what we’ve learned: Attackers are exploiting an unpatched vulnerability in Oracle’s WebLogic. Early…

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Hackers stole customer credit cards in Newegg data breach

Posted on September 19, 2018 by Dissent

Zack Whittaker reports: Newegg is clearing up its website after a month-long data breach. Hackers injected 15 lines of card skimming code on the online retailer’s payments page which remained for more than a month between August 14 and September 18, Yonathan Klijnsma, a threat researcher at RiskIQ, told TechCrunch. The code siphoned off credit card…

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Securus Technologies-owned GovPayNow.com Leaks 14M+ Records

Posted on September 19, 2018 by Dissent

Brian Krebs reports: Government Payment Service Inc. — a company used by thousands of U.S. state and local governments to accept online payments for everything from traffic citations and licensing fees to bail payments and court-ordered fines — has leaked more than 14 million customer records dating back at least six years, including names, addresses, phone…

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Virus shuts down city services in Beatrice, Nebraska

Posted on September 19, 2018 by Dissent

Scott Koperski reports: A virus shut down many city operations this week, including phone and internet services for several departments. City Administrator Tobias Tempelmeyer said city departments lost phone and internet service in the downtown area, including city hall, the Beatrice Police Department and city auditorium, which houses Beatrice Fire and Rescue. […] It’s believed…

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Brooklyn emergency room worker allegedly stole, then sold patients’ private information

Posted on September 17, 2018 by Dissent

Rich Shapiro and John Annese report: An emergency room worker at Kings County Hospital stole the private information of nearly 100 patients and sold it through an encrypted app on his cell phone, the Daily News has learned. Orlando Jemmott, 52, who worked at the city-run Brooklyn hospital for more than a decade, also fed…

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