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After a month of silence, University of New Mexico assists identity theft victims

Posted on September 1, 2016 by Dissent

Denicia Aragon reports: Over 1,000 former students and employees of UNM recently had their identity stolen from a University database, and after a month of silence, UNM has established a call center to assist victims of the incident. According to a University release, a decades-old UNM database containing names, birth dates, social security numbers, address,…

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Last.fm data from 2012 added to LeakedSource

Posted on September 1, 2016 by Dissent

Here’s yet another hack from 2012 where the data are now first circulating online. See previous coverage of the Last.fm hack here. Today LeakedSource announced that they had added the Last.fm data to their repository: Music service Last.fm was hacked on March 22nd, 2012 for a total of 43,570,999 users. This data set was provided…

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New York State Psychiatric Institute notifies 21,880 research participants of hack

Posted on August 31, 2016 by Dissent

The New York State Psychiatric Institute, a facility owned and operated by the New York State Office of Mental Health, has reported the following incident to HHS as impacting 21,880 research participants: On June 17, 2016, New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI)  learned that, between April 28 and May 4, certain parts of our system were accessed…

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KR: ‘Interpark hack was spearphishing scam’

Posted on August 31, 2016 by Dissent

There’s an update to the Interpark hack reported previously on this site. Won Ho-jung reports: A strategy known as spearsphishing was used in the hacking incident that leaked the personal information of over 10 million consumers registered with e-commerce site Interpark, according to the ICT Ministry and the Korea Communications Commission on Wednesday. According to the…

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OneLogin reports security breach that exposed customers’ ‘Secure Notes’ data in clear text

Posted on August 31, 2016 by Dissent

Hyacinth Mascarenhas reports: Cloud-based identity access service OneLogin has announced a server security breach that allowed a hacker to access customer Secure Notes data due to a bug in the company’s logging system. The company said the breach occurred when an intruder managed to gain access to its logging system that stores logs and analytics…

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That Dropbox hack was much bigger than previously revealed

Posted on August 30, 2016 by Dissent

So it only took like four years, but now we know. That 2012 Dropbox hack that recently led to additional password resets? The 2012 hack reportedly affected 68,680,741 accounts.  And maybe someone can explain why in 2016 we’re all first finding out the scope of older breaches like this one and LinkedIn, Tumblr, and MySpace, to name just some….

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