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A 2011 breach rears its ugly head again?

Posted on April 27, 2015 by Dissent

It seems that everywhere I go, I stumble over breaches that I didn’t know about. Today, something on Findlaw showed up in searches. It said: I am unfortunately a victim of identity theft as of 2014. I just found out about it in february of 2015. Luckily for me the thieves did not do too…

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IN: Prosecutor: Some Warrick child support files affected by virus

Posted on April 27, 2015 by Dissent

Richard Gootee reports: Warrick County Prosecutor Michael Perry announced that some of the county’s child support files were affected by a computer virus last year, which was before Perry took office. Perry laid blame for an alleged subsequent coverup of the incident at the feet of his predecessor — Jo Ann Krantz, whom Perry beat…

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MASSIVE FAIL: Indian gov DOXXES net neutrality campaigners; Gets DDoSed by @opindia_revenge in response.

Posted on April 27, 2015 by Dissent

Alexander J. Martin reports: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has dumped more than a million Indian netizens’ traceable personal details online, after it decided to publish, in full, the emails it received as part of its consultation paper about net neutrality. Obviously deeply convinced by last week’s arguments for transparency in internet governance, the Telecom Regulatory…

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IL: Former Miami-Dade prison guard sentenced to 3 years for stolen identity refund fraud using inmates’ information

Posted on April 26, 2015 by Dissent

A former Miami Dade County Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation prison guard was sentenced  to 36 months in federal prison by U.S. District Court Judge Charles R. Norgle for his role in a scheme involving theft of prison inmates’ identities which were used to file false tax returns. Cornelius Crumity pleaded guilty in May, 2014 to one…

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Russian Hackers Read Obama’s Unclassified Emails, Officials Say

Posted on April 26, 2015 by Dissent

Michael S. Schmidt and David E. Sanger report: Some of President Obama’s email correspondence was swept up by Russian hackers last year in a breach of the White House’s unclassified computer system that was far more intrusive and worrisome than has been publicly acknowledged, according to senior American officials briefed on the investigation. Read more on…

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Medical pot users try class action after Health Canada privacy breach

Posted on April 25, 2015 by Dissent

Sherri Borden Colley reports the latest development in a lawsuit filed after an administrative error resulted in “outing” 40,000 medical marijuana users: Lawyers will go before a Federal Court judge in Halifax in June to ask the court to certify a proposed class action on behalf of 40,000 medical marijuana users whose privacy was breached by…

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