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Best Buy Customers Beware: Another Email Security Breach

Posted on May 2, 2011 by Dissent

MB Quirk of The Consumerist cites an email from Best Buy to its customers – and no, this is apparently not the Epsilon breach, but yet another breach involving Best Buy customers: Dear Valued Best Buy Customer, We have discovered that a former business partner’s files containing the email addresses of some Best Buy customers…

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Hackers acquire X Factor applicants’ details

Posted on May 2, 2011 by Dissent

Katie Begley reports: Simon Cowell has called in the FBI after hackers broke into his top-secret computer network. Closely guarded secrets about media mogul Simon Cowell and his new US ­ X Factor show have been “stolen” by sneaky cyber crooks. The personal information and act details of more than 250,000 wannabes have also been…

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Taipei demands answers from Sony, threatens fines

Posted on April 29, 2011 by Dissent

Ralph Jennings reports: The city of Taipei is demanding that Sony provide details about any leak of PlayStation Network user data following an intrusion last week or face fines. As pressure mounts internationally against Sony over the failure of its PlayStation Network online gaming service, the Taiwan capital’s Law and Regulation Commission said late on…

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Stolen info from PlayStation hack reportedly up for sale

Posted on April 29, 2011 by Dissent

While Sony has been assuring everyone that users’ credit card numbers were encrypted, other reports continue to suggest otherwise (including this chat log that has garnered a lot of attention). Now Asher Moses reports: Personal information and credit card numbers stolen from Sony’s PlayStation Network in one of the world’s largest privacy breaches are reportedly…

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DSLReports says member information stolen

Posted on April 28, 2011 by Dissent

Elinor Mills reports: Subscribers to ISP news and review site DSLReports.com have been notified that their e-mail addresses and passwords may have been exposed during an attack on the Web site earlier this week. The site was targeted in an SQL injection attack yesterday and about 8 percent of the subscribers’ e-mail addresses and passwords…

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Dealer-FX warns customers about alleged Xtime vulnerability that could potentially expose customer data

Posted on April 28, 2011 by Dissent

The following email was forwarded to DataBreaches.net by the recipient: From: Privacy Officer [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 10:57 AM To: Privacy Officer Subject: URGENT SECURITY CONCERN Importance: High Dear Customer, We are writing to warn you of our recent discovery of a serious security defect in one of our competitor’s systems. The defect,…

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