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Argos exposes customers’ credit-card numbers in emails

Posted on March 3, 2010 by Dissent

Barry Collins reports: High street retailer Argos has compromised its customers’ security by sending their credit-card details – including the vital security code – in unencrypted emails. The company has been including the customer’s full name, address, credit-card number and three-digit CCV security code in order confirmation emails, which are sent once a customer has…

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Two Men Charged For Stealing Credit Card Data Throughout East Bay

Posted on March 3, 2010 by Dissent

Two Los Angeles area men were charged in Contra Costa County Wednesday for allegedly using “skimming” devices to steal people’s ATM and PIN numbers from gas pumps in Martinez, Benicia, Livermore, Hayward, Oakland, San Mateo and Sacramento, Martinez police said Wednesday. David Karapetyan, 31, and Zhiraya Zamanyan, 30, have each been charged with 32 counts…

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National Theatre hack forces password reset

Posted on March 2, 2010 by Dissent

John Leyden reports: Some 17,000 culture vultures registered to the UK’s National Theatre website need to reset their passwords after the site was hacked. The 20 February attack hit systems storing the logins of 17,000 (or around three per cent) of the 500,000 plus registered with the site. Only email, password, name and contact information…

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Wiseguys indicted in $25 million CAPTCHA-bot scheme

Posted on March 1, 2010 by Dissent

NEWARK – Three men who used fraud, deceit, and computer hacking to make more than $25 million by acquiring and reselling more than 1.5 million of the most coveted tickets to concerts, sporting events, and live entertainment throughout the United States surrendered to federal authorities this morning after being charged in an Indictment, U.S. Attorney…

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21 more business sector breaches from 2009 (update 2)

Posted on February 27, 2010 by Dissent

Maryland has updated its web site to provide breach notifications that it has received since its last update.  The newly posted notifications are for the period ending December 31, 2009, so there will likely be more to come for 2010. Some of the breaches described in the notifications were reported in the media at the…

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Wyndham hotels hacked again

Posted on February 26, 2010 by Dissent

The Wyndham Hotel and Resort chain, which has suffered two known breaches since 2008, has reportedly suffered a third breach. Robert McMillan of IDG News Service reports: Hackers broke into computer systems at Wyndham Hotels & Resorts recently, stealing sensitive customer data. The break-in occurred between late October 2009 and January 2010, when it was…

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