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McDonald’s Canada says 95,000 affected in careers website hack

Posted on March 31, 2017 by Dissent

The Canadian Press reports: McDonald’s Canada says the jobs section of its website has been hacked, compromising the personal information of about 95,000 applicants over the last three years. The company said Friday the accessed information included names, addresses, phone numbers, employment histories and other standard job application information of those who applied online between…

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Former Philly doctor hacked into old high school classmates’ social media accounts, police say

Posted on March 27, 2017 by Dissent

Michael Boren reports: A former Philadelphia doctor hacked into the cell phone, email, and social media accounts of several former classmates at Burlington County’s Delran High School, from which he graduated in 2005, and then made copies of their photos, authorities said. Peter Grossman, 29, who lives in Center City, was charged with identity theft…

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Daytona State College discovers second breach

Posted on March 27, 2017 by Dissent

Whoa. While investigating an employee W-2 breach that DataBreaches.net first alerted them to in February, Daytona State College discovered that they had had another breach – one involving student financial aid applications. The breach affected the personal and financial information of an unspecified number of students and their parents. Read more on WFTV.

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Portland man accused of swiping data from LA gaming company to create competitor zombie-survival game

Posted on March 25, 2017 by Dissent

Maxine Bernstein reports: A Portland man accused of obtaining unauthorized access to the software supporting a zombie-themed survival video game and then creating a competitor online game faces federal indictment. Brent Junker, who goes by the aliases “the domo” and “therussianknight” is charged with three counts of conspiracy to obtain unauthorized access to a protected computer….

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Important: Notification of data breach on FIRST Forums

Posted on March 23, 2017 by Dissent

As seen on their site today: Dear FIRST® Participant, We wish to inform you of an event that may affect the security of your username and password on our FIRST forums. What happened? On March 6, 2017, FIRST received a report of suspicious activity for two externally hosted websites – the FIRST Forum (forums.usfirst.org) and FIRST…

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Hackers: We Will Remotely Wipe iPhones Unless Apple Pays Ransom

Posted on March 21, 2017 by Dissent

Joseph Cox reports: A hacker or group of hackers is apparently trying to extort Apple over alleged access to a large cache of iCloud and other Apple email accounts. The hackers, who identified themselves as ‘Turkish Crime Family’, demanded $75,000 in Bitcoin or Ethereum, another increasingly popular crypto-currency, or $100,000 worth of iTunes gift cards…

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