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‘Kryogeniks’ hacker sentenced for Comcast hacking

Posted on August 10, 2010 by Dissent

No PII involved in this one, but since many may remember the case, I thought I’d post the follow-up. James Robert Black, Jr., a.k.a. “Defiant,” was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to four months in prison, four months of electronic home monitoring, 150 hours of community service, three years of supervised release…

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Laptop Revival repairman jailed

Posted on August 9, 2010 by Dissent

I had posted an earlier story on this case over on PogoWasRight.org, but probably should have posted something here, too.   From John Leyden: A corrupt laptop repair engineer has gone to jail for nine months after he was convicted of hacking into the laptop of one of his customers. Grzegorz Zachodni, 30, was caught browsing…

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Vermont reports uncover three more breaches

Posted on August 9, 2010 by Dissent

From breach reports to Vermont, here are three more breaches I didn’t know about previously: Cathedral Square notified residents that their only payment processing system had been compromised, resulting in access to the residents’ names, bank account numbers, and routing numbers if they paid their rent electronically.  Residents do not seem to have been offered…

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Maryland reports reveal yet more breaches

Posted on August 9, 2010 by Dissent

Thanks to the Maryland Attorney General’s Office, I just received copies of the 22 breach reports they received in January of this year. They’ll be sending me the rest of the reports received this year in the very near future. Looking through what they sent me, I see that we knew about the majority of…

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RBS WorldPay hacker extradicted to Atlanta

Posted on August 6, 2010 by Dissent

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for Northern Georgia issued a press release today announcing the extradition of Sergei Tsurikov, one of the alleged leaders of the Eastern European cybercrime group that hacked into RBS WorldPay in Atlanta in 2008. Tsurikov had been indicted in November 2009 on federal charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire…

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Maine breach reports obtained by DataBreaches.net

Posted on August 6, 2010 by Dissent

To follow up on my curiosity about what kind of year 2010 is turning out to be, I decided to use a primary source. Thanks to the cooperation of officials in Maine who responded promptly to my requests under Freedom of Information, I was able to obtain data on all breaches reported to them for…

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