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117 Million LinkedIn Emails And Passwords up for sale (Updated)

Posted on May 18, 2016 by Dissent

Lorenzo Franceschai-Bicchierai reports: A hacker is trying to sell the account information, including emails and passwords, of 117 million LinkedIn users. The hacker, who goes by the name “Peace,” told Motherboard that the data was stolen during the LinkedIn breach of 2012. At the time, only around 6.5 million encrypted passwords were posted online, and LinkedIn never…

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UK: Cambridgeshire County Council’s data breach shockers – Big Brother Watch

Posted on May 17, 2016 by Dissent

Big Brother Watch cites a Cambridge News article from May 13, but I can’t seem to load the original article, so am using BBW’s report: Elderly care papers held by an agency were found dumped in a bin as part of a shocking series of data breaches by Cambridgeshire County Council, the News can reveal….

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Patient appointment booking service notifying patients of potential breach

Posted on May 17, 2016 by Dissent

Zocdoc, an online booking system for dental or medical appointments, is first notifying patients almost one year after they learned programming errors enabled providers to access patient information they should not have had access to. In June, 2015, Zocdoc reportedly learned that a programming error had allowed some past or current practice staff members to access…

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Open records request goof exposes personal info of 36,000 Poway USD students and their parents

Posted on May 17, 2016 by Dissent

Yet another breach in response to an open records/freedom of information request, this one affecting 36,000 Poway Unified School District  students in California. CBS reports: The privacy breach leaked information about every student in the district and it included: medical information, home addresses, nicknames, birthdates, student grades, test scores and parents’ sensitive occupations. The San Diego…

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MO: After school closes its doors, personal student records remain inside, unprotected

Posted on May 16, 2016 by Dissent

Monica Evans reports: Former students and parents want to know why student records with personal information are sitting inside an abandoned school at 77th and Wyandotte in Kansas City, Mo. The former Bingham Junior High School building closed in 2001, but an anonymous source gave FOX 4 a box of files containing student names, social security…

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AU: CabCharge Data Exposed, Still Waiting For A Response Much Like Their Customers!

Posted on May 16, 2016 by Dissent

RiskBased Security reports that although it notified CabCharge of a misconfigured database leaking customer information and CabCharge seems to have taken steps to secure the data, CabCharge has neither acknowledged the notification nor notified customers: …. Our lead researcher quickly contacted CabCharge.com.au to alert them to the issue. After a few hours of checking on the status of…

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