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StudentCity.com hacked; hackers decode encrypted credit card data

Posted on July 21, 2011 by Dissent

I just read a breach disclosure to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office with accompanying notification letters to those affected that impressed me favorably. But first, to the breach itself: StudentCity.com, a site that allows students to book trips for school vacation breaks, suffered a breach in their system that they learned about on June…

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Sony insurer sues to deny data breach coverage

Posted on July 21, 2011 by Dissent

Ben Berkowitz reports: One of Sony Corp’s insurers has asked a court to declare that it does not have to pay to defend the media and electronics conglomerate from mounting legal claims related to a massive data breach earlier this year. Zurich American Insurance Co asked a New York state court in documents filed late…

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LulzSec Hacks The Times with Brutal Murdoch Death Notice

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Dissent

Brian Barrett reports: Well, seems like LulzSec has returned, and moved beyond the DDOS attack! Not content to merely shut down one of Rupert Murdoch’s paper’s websites, the hacking group has instead planted a bizarro-Onionesque account of the mogul’s death-by-palladium on a Times redesign page masquerading as The Sun. Well played, #AntiSec. Read more on Gizmodo. As to why I’m…

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Ru: Megafon screws up and users’ SMS messages get indexed by a search engine

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Dissent

Eugene Kapersky writes: One of the biggest Russian mobile operators Megafon with 57+ million user base leaked the users’ SMS history. Thousands of messages are now available online that caused a major nation-wide scandal. There is another company that may have been involved in the issue – Yandex, the biggest national search engine that could have indexed either some classified storage or SMS…

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JLAudio responds to hack; notifies consumers to change their passwords

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Dissent

I’ve heard back from JLAudio, who confirms that they were hacked.  A spokesperson for the firm indicates that the hacked database is maintained by a third party vendor whom they declined to name.  The site was used by customers to upload pictures of their cars showing their JLAudio systems.  The picture gallery has been removed…

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Hacker: JLAudio database hacked; users’ information posted online

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Dissent

The hacker known as Abhaxas (@Abhaxas on Twitter) has uploaded a database with what appears to be 4,827 JLAudio’s users’ first and last names, street addresses with city and zipcode, ages, userIDs, e-mail addresses, and plain text passwords. In a preface to the data dump, Abhaxas writes: I warned you guys multiple times, but it…

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