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Vermont tax department says risk of ID theft is minimal after social security numbers posted

Posted on January 11, 2012 by Dissent

From the Burlington Free Press: The Vermont Department of Taxes said Wednesday it has identified all parties who were able to access residents’ social security numbers inadvertently posted online. The last party was identified a day after the tax department said three parties were able to access the numbers. The website displayed the Social Security…

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VA: Spotsylvania school employees’ personal information was available online

Posted on January 6, 2012 by Dissent

There’s been an exposure breach involving Spotsylvania school employees’ personal information. Yesterday, Fredericksburg.com reported: The division began mailing letters to employees about the security breach this afternoon and expects to have all of them mailed by tomorrow morning, schools spokeswoman Rene Daniels said in response to my inquiry. An employee discovered the problem on Dec….

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NY: Bronx cops in file flub

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Dissent

Kirstan Conley reports: Bronx cops disposed of dozens of sensitive files by tossing them in the garbage outside the 40th Precinct station house, where they were fair game for local Dumpster divers. The files — including at least one domestic-violence report, stolen property records, criminal complaints and mug shots — were found yesterday by a…

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Some members of Anonymous go after neo-Nazi organizations and sites (update1)

Posted on January 3, 2012 by Dissent

OK, first I noticed a paste on Pastebin.htm on December 30 by a “guest” that simply listed domain names: www.deutsche-stimme.de www.ds-versand.de altermedia-deutschland.info flutopfer.npd-sachsen.de gfp-netz.de naweko.de nein-zum-euro.de npd-bremen.de npd-sachsen.de stehar.com tinten-sachse.de www.frank-franz.de www.holger-apfel.de www.naweko.de www.nno-tv.de www.npd-dresden.de www.npd-fraktion-burgenlandkreis.de www.npd-fraktion-sachsen.de www.npd-kronach.de www.npd-leipzig.net www.npd-nol.de www.npd-sachsen.de www.npd-weissenfels.de NPD is the extreme right-wing party in Germany, so the paste caught my…

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Credit Mutuel Units Inspected by French Data Protection Watchdog

Posted on January 2, 2012 by Dissent

Heather Smith reports: Two Credit Mutuel-CIC units were inspected by France’s data protection authority following a data system failure reported on Dec. 28 by weekly newspaper Canard Enchaine, the Paris-based watchdog said today. The Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertes searched an information-technology unit in Strasbourg, France, and a newspaper belonging to the bank in…

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United flyer finds dozens of passengers’ info online

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Dissent

Keli Rabon reports: Anna Culina just wanted to check her miles on United Airline’s mobile website, but instead, she ended up with a whole lot more. “I was navigating around activity and statements, and each time I navigated around to a different area, I pulled up someone else’s information,” Culina said. Culina found the personal…

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