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(Update) Yellowstone County website hack did expose personal information

Posted on July 20, 2011 by Dissent

The Laurel Outlook reports: Yellowstone County officials confirmed Tuesday that a security breach of the county website may have exposed account information. According to release issued Tuesday by the Yellowstone County Commission, investigators have discovered that the motor vehicle electronic payment account information may have been exposed when a hacker penetrated the system on July…

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IE: Meath Council posted personal info of planning applicants online: report

Posted on July 16, 2011 by Dissent

A major investigation has been launched after a county council uploaded personal information online, including birth certificates, bank account details and drivers’ licences. The Data Protection Commissioner is investigating the breach by Meath County Council, who only removed the sensitive data when it was notified by a member of the public. However, last night the…

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UK: Confidential Kirklees Council files on computer stolen by burglars

Posted on July 16, 2011 by Dissent

Confidential files on 25 people were on a computer stolen from the home of a Kirklees Council employee. The laptop theft was one of several incidents in which private data was lost by the authority. The council also lost a paper file containing children’s social services information, it emerged in new details revealed by the…

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MT: Yellowstone County website hacked

Posted on July 14, 2011 by Dissent

Katrina Heser reports: The State of Montana Technology Department told Yellowstone County today their website has been hacked. It’s possible that taxpayers who paid property taxes by electronic bank transfer may have had their account number exposed to the hacker. This does not include taxpayers who made payments by paper check or debit/credit cards. The…

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German police hacked, suspect tracking data stolen

Posted on July 12, 2011 by Dissent

Darren Paul reports on another hack revealed last week: Usernames, passwords, and coordinates stolen in data haul. Hackers have broken into the German Federal Police and swiped location data used to track suspects. The attack launched by the left-wing n0-N4m3 Cr3w hacking group compromised a server used by the country’s customs service. It then published…

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Missing Morgan Stanley Data: Who’s to Blame?

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Dissent

I saw this one coming after seeing all of the headlines blaming Morgan Stanley Smith Barney for the loss of two CDs with client data. I think a lot of people interpreted Credit.com’s original reporting on the breach to mean that the CDs arrived at the state offices. But their reporting was actually a bit…

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