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Major International Hacker Pleads Guilty For Massive Attack On U.s. Retail And Banking Networks

Posted on December 29, 2009 by Dissent

Albert Gonzalez, 28, of Miami, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to hack into computer networks supporting major American retail and financial organizations, and to steal data relating to tens of millions of credit and debit cards, announced Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division Lanny A. Breuer, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey…

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RockYou Sued for Failing to Protect the Personal Data of its 32 Million Customers

Posted on December 29, 2009 by Dissent

From the press release: An Indiana man filed a class action lawsuit Monday against RockYou, the developer of popular online applications and services for use with social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace, after RockYou failed to safeguard the highly sensitive personal information of him and 32 million others. The lawsuit alleges that RockYou…

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La. restaurants suffering credit card ‘nightmare’

Posted on December 28, 2009 by Dissent

Jason Brown of The Advocate has a story today about restauranteurs’ lawsuits against Radiant Systems and Computer World, a lawsuit covered previously on the blog. Of note, Brown cites a Secret Service agent involved in the case: Luiz Velez, resident agent in charge of the Secret Service’s Baton Rouge office, said each hack involved restaurants…

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Jp: Ex-exec of matchmaking firm ‘stole personal data’

Posted on December 26, 2009 by Dissent

Here’s an insider breach from Japan reported by The Yomiuri Shimbun: A former executive of matchmaking service firm Web in Chiba Prefecture allegedly stole personal data of about 16,000 people who registered with the firm and tried to sell it to other matchmaking firms, it has been learned. Web said it plans to lodge a…

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Briton faces fraud charges over international debit card scam

Posted on December 24, 2009 by Dissent

Sophie Tedmanson of Times Online has more on the McDonald’s EFTPOS skimming scam in Australia, identifying the two men arrested as British national Elangovan Ganeshamoorthy and Canadian national Rugshanth Selvarajah: The men are alleged to have gone to more than 20 McDonald’s restaurants in the Perth metropolitan area, swapping the pin keypads on EFTPOS (Switch)…

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(Update) AK: Local retailer hacked, credit card info stolen

Posted on December 23, 2009 by Dissent

James Halpin reports: At least 150 Anchorage residents, possibly hundreds more, had their debit and credit card information stolen when a local retailer’s computer records were apparently targeted by hackers, according to Anchorage police. Police estimate the number of local victims could range as high as 1,000 or more in what looks to be an…

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