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UK: Personal registrant data leaked by General Optical Council

Posted on December 8, 2015 by Dissent

Simon Jones reports: Personal data of General Optical Council registrants has been mistakenly shared by the regulator with three optical organisations. Home contact addresses of fully qualified registrants were shared earlier this year with three organisations working within the optical sector. The GOC said the details would have been handed over if a home address…

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Wetherspoons Hacker Speaks: ‘I Did It Simply Because I Could’

Posted on December 8, 2015 by Dissent

Joseph Cox reports: Last week, Wetherspoons, a popular UK pub chain, announced that one of its websites had been breached. The hacker got away with the names, dates of birth, email addresses, and phone numbers of potentially 656,723 customers, as well as the partial payment card data of 100 people. Then late on Monday night, the hacker responsible,…

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MT: Hellgate High Data Breach Reveals Confidential Student Information

Posted on December 8, 2015 by Dissent

Jon King reports: Missoula County Public School District one is investigating why a bunch of private, confidential information about Hellgate students and one school staffer were sent to parents of Hellgate High School football players last Friday. The information included very sensitive details, including which students at school were failing classes, which students were seeking…

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Hacks, hacks, everywhere, Monday edition

Posted on December 7, 2015 by Dissent

“Rubber” (@smitt3nz on Twitter) has been busy, it seems. Here are just some of the hacks and data dumps posted in that Twitter account over the past few months. 784 users of chickencycles.co.uk had their usernames and passwords hacked and leaked. Some of the passwords were cracked and the cracks provided. 1,710 users of artrookie.co.uk had their usernames, encrypted…

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Fan networks, including MLB, leaked fans’ personal details: researcher

Posted on December 7, 2015 by Dissent

Los Angeles-based Vixlet‘s web site says, “Social networks of tomorrow Today. Bring it On.” So Chris Vickery, the white-hat researcher who uncovered the Systema Software breach, did. And what he found was that fans of Major League Baseball, ATP, and Slipknot had their personal details leaked. “I downloaded over 377,000 user account details, Chris tells DataBreaches.net, including, “names, email addresses,…

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OkHello is NOT OK – they’re leaking user data (UPDATE 2)

Posted on December 6, 2015 by Dissent

OkHello provides a free group video chat service. Its app is available on the App Store and on Google Play. If you’ve ever used it, your details may be in others’ hands right now. According to their Privacy Policy, OkHello collects a lot of personal information about users, including geolocation data and information from Facebook…

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