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Yo founder apologizes for hack – and hires one of his hackers

Posted on June 23, 2014 by Dissent

Alex Hern provides an update: Zero-character messaging app Yo has apologised for getting hacked – and has hired one of the hackers to improve its service. The app, which does nothing more than let users send each other “Yo’s” [sic], messages containing nothing but the word “Yo”, confirmed it was the victim of a hack on…

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#YO_NO! Messaging app ‘Yo’ gets hit by hackers

Posted on June 20, 2014 by Dissent

No one could have possibly seen this coming, right? Shaun Nichols reports: Just days after the Yo app debuted to much fanfare (and head-scratching), the mono-message social tool has fallen prey to hackers. A group of students from Georgia Tech University claim via TechCrunch to have accessed the application’s entire user database, and gained the ability to obtain…

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Metropolitan Companies hacked; member personal information accessed

Posted on June 18, 2014 by Dissent

The Metropolitan Companies, Inc. which includes  Metropolitan Interpreters and Translators, Metlang LLC, Metropolitan Hospitality, Inc.,CTI Metropolitan LLC, and Metropolitan Temporaries  provides staffing resources for various organizations. They are in the process of notifying those who obtained work through them or who applied for work that a hacker appears to have accessed their systems and removed…

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P.F. Chang’s Breach Likely Began in Sept. 2013

Posted on June 18, 2014 by Dissent

Brian Krebs, who broke the P.F. Chang’s breach, now has another scoop about the breach – that it appears to have gone on for at least nine months: New information indicates that the breach at the nationwide restaurant chain began on or around Sept. 18, 2013, and didn’t end until June 11, one day after…

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Evernote: Important information regarding your discussion forum account

Posted on June 16, 2014 by Dissent

Posted yesterday on Evernote: (Users impacted by this announcement will have received an email) The vendor that operates https://discussion.evernote.com has notified us that they had been hacked. The hacker was able to retrieve our forum members’ profile information. We don’t believe that the hacker accessed any private forum messages. Our forum is a completely separate service from…

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Second member of #NullCrew arrested (updated to add complaint)

Posted on June 16, 2014 by Dissent

Following the arrest of a Quebec teen last week in the hacking of a Bell Canada supplier, a second person associated with #NullCrew (@NullCrew_FTS) has now been arrested. Kim Janssen reports: A hacker who targeted big businesses — including Comcast and Canadian Bell — as well as schools, including the University of Virginia, will face…

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