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Rental leases with personal information found outside apartment complex

Posted on November 5, 2012 by Dissent

Keke Collins reports from South Carolina:   Pictures taken in July show boxes of old leasing agreements from Cypress Cove Apartments in West Ashley tossed outside the complex’s storage unit area. The papers, which were discovered this past July, were full of social security numbers, credit reports, W-2  forms, addresses and phone numbers from previous residents….

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Facebook flaw bypasses password protections

Posted on November 5, 2012 by Dissent

  Facebook has moved quickly to shut down a loophole which made some accounts accessible without a password. The bug was exposed in a message posted to the Hacker News website. The message contained a search string that, when used on Google, returned a list of links to 1.32 million Facebook accounts. In some cases…

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Verizon staff arrested for stealing customer’s nude pics

Posted on November 5, 2012 by Dissent

Iain Thomson reports: Two Verizon staffers are under indictment for allegedly stealing nude photographs from an attractive female customer’s phone and passing them around. According to the gendarmes, the two men worked at a Verizon store in Bartow, Florida, where one, Joshua Stuart, 24, helped a nubile local waitress transfer her data from her old…

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What will Congress do now that it knows about numerous breaches involving Experian? And what will the FTC do?

Posted on October 29, 2012 by Dissent

Jordan Robertson of Bloomberg News provides media attention to a problem I’ve noted previously on this blog – that Experian suffers a lot of data breaches* where a client’s login is compromised and misused by unauthorized individuals.  His coverage will hopefully inform national conversations about transparency, consumer protection, and breach notification. First is the issue…

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FTC Finalizes Settlements with Two Businesses that Exposed Consumers Sensitive Information Over P2P Networks

Posted on October 27, 2012 by Dissent

From the FTC, a follow-up to a previously-reported action: Following a public comment period, the Federal Trade Commission has accepted as final settlements with two operations it charged with illegally exposing the sensitive personal information of thousands of consumers by allowing peer-to-peer file-sharing software to be installed on their corporate computer systems.  Settlements with Utah-based debt…

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MT: Two employees charged with stealing credit card info from Helena restaurant

Posted on October 25, 2012 by Dissent

Melissa Anderson reports another instance of an insider breach in the hospitality sector: Two men made their initial appearance in a Helena courtroom on Thursday, accused of stealing credit card numbers from customers at the L&D Chinese Buffet. […] The two men, who worked at the restaurant at the time of the alleged crimes, are…

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