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GIS admits @AnonAustria hack was worse than it originally acknowledged

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Dissent

The Austrian Independent reports: Hackers nicked significantly more data from a subsidiary of Austrian broadcaster ORF than officials initially admitted, it has emerged. A spokesman for GIS, the ORF’s radio and TV fee agency, announced today (Tues) 214,000 customer data sets were stolen in the attack last week. He added that 96,000 of the data…

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BET24 data breach: what did they know, when did they know it, and why the hell didn’t they disclose?

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Dissent

John Leyden reports: BET24.com warned customers on Monday that their personal data may have been exposed by a breach that took place in December 2009. The gambling site is only warning clients 19 months after the breach, although it said it had taken other measures, including resetting passwords, at the time of the breach. The…

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Austrian TV users’ bank account data acquired by hackers

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Dissent

Associated Press reports: The Austrian authority that collects state television fees from customers says hackers have stolen 214,000 data files from its server, including 96,000 containing sensitive bank account information. GIS says the cyberattack by a group identifying itself as “AustrAnon” occurred Friday. It said Monday that it has started informing customers whose data has…

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Estée Lauder employees notified that their data were on stolen laptop

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Dissent

Another day, another stolen laptop with employee data. This time it’s New York-headquartered Estée Lauder. In a notification letter dated July 13 that omits important details, the firm’s lawyer writes that the company “recently learned” about the theft of a company-issued laptop that contained names and Social Security Numbers of current and former employees and…

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Another simple human error results in breach costs

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Dissent

Lincoln National Life Insurance Company and Lincoln Life & Annuity Company of New York recently notified 705 individuals of a breach following an e-mail error by a home employee. According to their letter to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office of July 13, on April 29, the employee sent an encrypted email to a third-party…

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Margarita’s Mexican Restaurant breach raises issues of law enforcement’s role in notifying the public (updated)

Posted on July 23, 2011 by Dissent

Brandon Scott reports that authorities have now named the source of a rash of card fraud reports in Huntsville, Texas. But what may be most significant about the news report is its focus on how law enforcement decided whether to – or when – reveal the point of compromise: … Huntsville Police Department, Walker County…

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