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AU: Optometrists and dentists will know if you’ve had an abortion or mental illness in health record bungle

Posted on April 10, 2017 by Dissent

Gah. Soooo many leaks and breaches are due to default settings that over-share. How hard is it for software to set default settings to NOT share with everyone? C’mon, folks.  Sue Dunlevy reports: THE private health records of Australians can be accessed by more than half a million people under the latest bungle with the $2.2…

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Shadow Brokers Publish the Password for the Rest the Stolen NSA Hacking Tools (and Lecture President Trump)

Posted on April 9, 2017 by Dissent

Catalin Cimpanu reports: The Shadow Brokers (TSB) are back, and they’ve released the password for the rest of the hacking tools they claim to have stolen from the NSA last year.TSB is a mysterious group that appeared in the summer of 2016 when they dumped on GitHub and other sites a trove of files they…

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The threat within: Arrests of former employees announced in two New Jersey cases

Posted on April 9, 2017 by Dissent

Jessica Mazzola reports: An East Brunswick man was arrested Friday on charges he stole about 20,000 confidential files from his employer to open a consulting business after his retirement, federal authorities said. Anchi Hou, 61, a retired employee of DuPont, was charged was theft of trade secrets after allegedly copying and stealing the files from…

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Top Mexican cop leaked sensitive info to drug cartels, prosecutors charge

Posted on April 6, 2017 by Dissent

Jason Meisner reports: As a top Mexican police commander, Ivan Reyes Arzate was trusted for years with the most sensitive information surrounding U.S. investigations of dangerous cartel drug traffickers, from notorious Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to the violent offshoot faction known as Beltran-Leyva. But last fall, after secret details about a Chicago-based…

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Breach of Financial-Aid Tool May Have Compromised Data on 100,000 Taxpayers

Posted on April 6, 2017 by Dissent

Adam Harris reports: Nearly 100,000 taxpayers may have had their personal information compromised by a security breach of an Internal Revenue Service tool that makes it easier to fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, the Fafsa, according to the IRS commissioner, John Koskinen, who testified on Thursdaybefore the Senate Finance Committee. The tool,…

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Nearly Every Corner of W.Va. Courthouse Affected by ID Theft

Posted on April 6, 2017 by Dissent

Tina Alvey reports: Identity theft is a crime that just keeps on taking. Employees at the Monroe County Courthouse are among the latest victims of an apparent information highjacking, but at this point no one is even certain if the stolen data came from electronic or paper records. All that county officials are sure of…

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