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Hyundai Capital in South Korea to notify 420,000 customers of data breach; Financial watchdog opens investigation

Posted on April 11, 2011 by Dissent

Ju-min Park of Reuters reports: South Korea’s financial watchdog launched an investigation on Monday into the leak of personal information from South Korea’s Hyundai Capital, the consumer finance unit of Hyundai Motor Group, a Financial Supervisory Service official said. Hyundai Capital said personal information on about 420,000 of its 1.8 million customers was leaked when…

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Readers question whether Epsilon breach was really names and email addresses only (updated to include response from Epsilon)

Posted on April 11, 2011 by Dissent

From comments under another blog entry, it seems clear that a lot of people are not believing Epsilon’s assurance that the breach involved names and email addresses only. I received the following email, which I am reproducing except for redacting the name of the sender and the name of the Epsilon employee and their phone…

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AU: Govt loses credit card details in attack

Posted on April 8, 2011 by Dissent

Darren Pauli reports: More than 600 corporate credit cards owned by top Federal Government agencies from the Department of Defence to the Australian Federal Police have been exposed in a suspected espionage attack on a Sydney firm. ZDNet Australia has obtained an document that contains 629 valid credit card numbers along with expiry dates, organisation…

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In Surprise Appeal, TJX Hacker Claims U.S. Authorized His Crimes

Posted on April 8, 2011 by Dissent

Kim Zetter reports on an appeal filed by Albert Gonzalez.  Gonzalez has asked for his guilty pleas to be overturned, claiming that everything he did (his criminal acts) were at the behest of the Secret Service and that he did not know that he could offer a Public Authority defense. In writing his appeal, Gonzalez…

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AU: Privacy czar to investigate Epsilon email breach

Posted on April 7, 2011 by Dissent

Fallout from the attack on the giant US marketing and communications firm continues to spread, and may affect millions of consumers globally. Dell Australia remains the only local company to admit customer data was compromised when hackers hit Epsilon’s Dallas headquarters last week. While Epsilon has offices in Sydney and Melbourne, it’s not yet clear…

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House Lawmakers Want Info About Data Breach – So Do I!

Posted on April 6, 2011 by Dissent

Earlier today, I noted that Senator Blumenthal had asked Attorney General Holder to open an investigation into the Epsilon breach. Also today,  some members of the House decided that they wanted some answers, too. Juliana Gruenwald reports: In a letter Wednesday to Epsilon’s parent company, Alliance Data Systems, the leaders of the Subcommittee on Commerce,…

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