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Former PwC employees on trial in Lux Leaks breach and scandal

Posted on April 26, 2016 by Dissent

There’s a new development in an insider breach that created shock waves internationally As I had noted back in 2014, a former PricewaterhouseCoopers employee charged with copying and leaking files to the media (the “Lux Leaks” case) had suggested that he wasn’t the only employee involved.  Now Fraser Simpson reports that today, two former PwC employees…

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Hundreds of Spotify credentials appear online – users report accounts hacked, emails changed

Posted on April 25, 2016 by Dissent

Sarah Perez reports: A list containing hundreds of Spotify account credentials – including emails, usernames, passwords, account type and other details – has popped up on the website Pastebin, in what appears to be a possible security breach. After reaching out to a random sampling of the victims via email, we’ve confirmed that these users’ Spotify…

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BeautifulPeople.com Leaks Very Private Data of 1.1 Million ‘Elite’ Daters — And It’s All For Sale

Posted on April 25, 2016 by Dissent

Thomas Fox-Brewster reports: Sexual preference. Relationship status. Income. Address. These are just some details applicants for the controversial dating site BeautifulPeople.com are asked to supply before their physical appeal is judged by the existing user base, who vote on who is allowed in to the “elite” club based on looks alone. All of this, of course, is supposed to…

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Mexico launches criminal probe into exposure of voter information (updated)

Posted on April 24, 2016 by Dissent

Dell Cameron reports: Mexican authorities have begun criminal proceedings into a data theft incident said to affect more than 87 million registered voters. Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE) filed a criminal complaint on Friday with the country’s election crimes office concerning millions of voter records discovered on a U.S.-based Amazon cloud server. The theft of…

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COMELEC hacking should be treated as a serious national security problem

Posted on April 23, 2016 by Dissent

This column by Cecilio Arillo has some interesting figures…. and concerns. IF no security contingency plan is yet in place, the country’s armed services (police and military) should immediately draw up one because the likelihood of an election failure is not far removed as a result of the massive hacking of the confidential biometric files…

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Data leak enough to impeach Comelec execs – lawyers

Posted on April 23, 2016 by Dissent

As bad as the Mexican voter database leak may seem, the hack and data dump affecting over 55 million Filipino voters is much worse, in my opinion. Not only was more sensitive information involved – including passport information and fingerprints – but the data were freely available to an untold number of parties who may…

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