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Hackers attack Planned Parenthood, release some employee data

Posted on July 27, 2015 by Dissent

William Turton reports: Planned Parenthood has been hacked. Late Sunday night, a group of hackers who oppose the healthcare nonprofit’s abortion practices released Planned Parenthood’s website databases as well as names and email addresses of the organization’s employees. The attack on Planned Parenthood follows a storm of controversy over the organization. Anti-abortion activists sparked the uproar…

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Anonymous hacks census.gov; leaks non-sensitive info

Posted on July 27, 2015 by Dissent

Here’s another breach from last week that was sitting in the drafts folder because, well, I’m old, I forget. Census.gov was hacked by Anonymous, whose claimed motivation was “#TPP #TTIP” (Trans-Pacific Partnership, Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership). Ali Raza reports: A hacktivist group, which refers to itself as Anonymous, has claimed that the United States Census Bureau…

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NY: Personal documents found in Norwich dumpster

Posted on July 25, 2015 by Dissent

Here we go again. A woman discovers unshredded personal information in a dumpster. David Hermanovitch reports: The information was originally given to Vision Nissan of Webster, NY. The documentation had been placed in the dumpster, not shredded, after the mobile car dealership from Vision had done business in Norwich. Read more on WBNG. Even though…

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Georgia Division Of Aging Services Notifies 3,000 Clients Of Data Breach

Posted on July 24, 2015 by Dissent

Randy L. Key reports: Georgia’s Department of Human Services Division of Aging Services has notified approximately 3,000 clients in the Community Care Services Program of an unauthorized disclosure of their protected health information. The Department has identified the root cause of the issue, which involved the inadvertent disclosure of certain health diagnoses of affected program…

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King’s College London student data breach results in underaking

Posted on July 24, 2015 by Dissent

King’s College London fell afoul of the Data Protection Act, it seems. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) learned that a spreadsheet containing personal data -including exam results – of 1831 students and applicants was sent in error to 22 students. Of note, the spreadsheet had been worked on by and transferred between several employees prior to being sent out…

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AU: Labor lobbyist Hawker Britton makes embarrassing email error

Posted on July 24, 2015 by Dissent

Daisy Dumas reports: It is the oldest PR mistake in the book — and possibly the last thing an already weakened Labor Party ally needs. Labor-aligned federal government lobbying firm Hawker Britton has accidentally revealed its contacts database in an email sent on Thursday afternoon. The message was sent to to more than 1000 email addresses,…

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