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8 jailed for personal data scam in S China

Posted on January 7, 2010 by Dissent

A man was sentenced to a year and a half behind bars in the country’s first-known case of violating the security of personal information on Sunday, local media reported Monday. Zhou Jianping, a resident of Zhuhai, Guangdong province, set up a private investigation company in the provincial capital Guangzhou two years ago and sold personal…

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NY: Documents found in mall parking lot

Posted on January 5, 2010 by Dissent

WABC reports: […] The confidential papers were found by a man at the Palisades Mall in Rockland County. To make it worse, and what really got the man angry, is that no one at the mall seemed interested in taking those documents back. […] The applications are for a clothing store named Metropark, a Los…

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Watt may appeal sentence

Posted on January 5, 2010 by Dissent

Todd Wallack reports that Stephen Watt, the former Morgan Stanley coder who provided Albert Gonzalez with a sniffer program used to steal data from TJX customers, may appeal his sentence: Stephen Watt was sentenced Dec. 28 by a federal judge in Boston to two years in prison and three years of supervised release and ordered…

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UK: Hacker rattles 21,000 iPhone unlockers

Posted on December 31, 2009 by Dissent

Bill Ray reports: Hackers have mailed 21,000 customers of iPhoneUnlockUK to remind them the company uses unlicensed software, and that their details have been compromised. E-mails were sent out to customers of the iPhone unlocking service, with claims that iPhoneUnlockUK is guilty of stealing software and selling it illegally. The mail goes on to recommend…

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Update AK: Source of stolen credit information was a restaurant

Posted on December 30, 2009 by Dissent

James Halpin reports: The source of the debit and credit card data stolen from hundreds of Anchorage residents in a sophisticated hacking attack was Little Italy, a family-owned restaurant in South Anchorage, its owner said Tuesday. Police say anywhere from 150 to 1,000 card numbers were stolen and used in the attack, which started generating…

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Target Co was victim of hacker Albert Gonzalez

Posted on December 29, 2009 by Dissent

Target Co said it was among the victims of computer hacker Albert Gonzalez, mastermind of the biggest identity theft in U.S. history. […] Target spokeswoman Amy Reilly said her company was among the victims, having had an “extremely limited” number of payment card numbers stolen by Gonzalez about two years ago. She declined to say…

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