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No Child Left Inside Site Shut Down; Investigation Pending

Posted on April 9, 2010 by Dissent

Amanda Falcone reports from Connecticut: The state Department of Environmental Protection has ordered its contractor to shut down nochildleftinside.org because someone hacked into the web site. The web site is associated with the state’s No Child Left Inside initiative, which was established to encourage families to enjoy the outdoors, and it is a place where…

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Brokerage Account Hacker Gets 3 Years in Jail

Posted on April 9, 2010 by Dissent

A computer hacker was sentenced to 3 years and 1 month in prison yesterday for hacking into brokerage accounts at Charles Schwab and laundering more than $246,000, some of which he sent to co-conspirators in Russia. From September 2006 to December 2007, Aleksey Volynskiy used Trojan horse computer viruses to steal victims’ personal account information…

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HBDirect.com customers notified of hack

Posted on April 8, 2010 by Dissent

HBDirect.com suspects that its web site was breached and that customers’ names, addresses, phone numbers, e-mail addresses and credit card numbers were stolen. In a letter to those affected which is not the typical letter I’m used to reading, company principal Paul Ballyk not only explained what an SQL injection attack is, but noted that…

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Bar patrons hit with credit card fraud

Posted on April 8, 2010 by Dissent

Peter Cox reports on a breach previously mentioned here. Some credit cards swiped recently at the Mad Capper have been swiped by hackers who’ve racked up charges on those cards from Indiana to Russia. Jeff Chilson, owner of the Mad Capper, said that people who have been at the downtown Stillwater bar/restaurant in the last…

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Reconsidering the retailers’ attempts to keep their identities secret

Posted on March 31, 2010 by Dissent

Over on The Tech Herald, Steve Ragan takes a somewhat more sympathetic view to J.C. Penney than I have generally taken. Steve writes, in part: Most of the media reports are painting the picture that J.C. Penney suffered a breach and did nothing. That isn’t entirely true. The company cooperated fully when asked and it…

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MyPilotStore.com hack results in false charges on customers’ cards

Posted on March 31, 2010 by Dissent

On February 18, MyPlane, dba MyPilotStore.com, discovered that their database containing their customers’ names, addresses, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses, and credit card information had been hacked. According to the firm, some customers received a “nominal fake charge to their credit card by a company not associated with us.” By letter dated March 19, MyPilotStore notified…

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