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FTC Approves Final Orders Settling Charges that Credit Report Resellers Allowed Hackers to Access Consumers’ Personal Information

Posted on August 22, 2011 by Dissent

From the FTC: Following a public comment period, the Federal Trade Commission has approved final orders settling charges against three credit report resellers, SettlementOne Credit Corporation; ACRAnet, Inc.; and Fajilan and Associates, Inc., also doing business as Statewide Credit Services. The FTC alleged the companies did not take reasonable information security steps to protect consumers’…

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Dialogic, Sikorsky, and Thompson Dunavant report recent breaches

Posted on August 20, 2011 by Dissent

A few recent breach reports  to the New Hampshire Attorney that did not garner media attention: On August 8, California-based Dialogic, Inc. sent out notifications to employees whose names and Social Security Numbers were on equipment stolen during a break-in on July 17. Also on August 8, Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation (a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation)…

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Epson Korea says 35 million 350,000 customers’ data hacked (updated)

Posted on August 20, 2011 by Dissent

Update: Yonhap News issued another story that puts the number at 350,000, but didn’t correct their original url, cited below. Good grief – yet another hack in South Korea affecting 35 million?!  Yonhap News Agency reports:  Epson Korea Co., the South Korean unit of Japan’s Seiko Epson Corp., said Saturday that its Web site has…

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Dropbox cloud was a haven for data thieves, researchers say

Posted on August 19, 2011 by Dissent

Yesterday, I posted an item about how the co-owners of Chocolate Emporium reported that a former employee stole their entire business platform and customer database, and used Dropbox as part of the incident. Here’s a related item by Tim Greene: Files entrusted to cloud-storage provider Dropbox were susceptible to unauthorized access via three attacks devised…

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Anonymous Hackers Release FBI Contractor’s Drone Data

Posted on August 19, 2011 by Dissent

Alastair Stevenson reports: The hacker collective Anonymous has released a fresh batch of data taken from Vanguard Defense Industries, a Pentagon and FBI contractor. […] Anonymous later said the e-mails belong to the contractor’s senior vice president, Richard T. Garcia, and contained information regarding “internal meeting notes and contracts, schematics, non-disclosure agreements, personal information about…

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BART Police database hacked

Posted on August 17, 2011 by Dissent

Graham Cluley reports a second breach involving the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART): A database belonging to the BART Police Officers Association appears to have been hacked, and the names, postal and email addresses of officers posted online. Just over 100 officers are listed in the document, in what is clearly a serious security breach….

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