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Popular teen app Wishbone hacked (again), 40 million users’ info being given away

Posted on May 21, 2020 by Dissent

We know that no security is perfect, but when a company collecting and storing teenagers’ data has repeated breaches, it’s cause for concern – and possible investigation by federal and state regulators. In 2017, we learned that the popular teen quiz app, Wishbone, had been “hacked.” According to reports at the time, hackers snagged 2.2…

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EasyJet hacked: data breach affects 9 million customers

Posted on May 20, 2020 by Dissent

Lawrence Abrams reports: EasyJet, the UK’s largest airline, has disclosed that they were hacked and that the email addresses and travel information for 9 million customers were exposed. For some of these customers, credit card details were also accessed by the attackers. In a data breach notification disclosed today, EasyJet states that they have suffered…

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AU: My Health Record system hit by hack attempt

Posted on May 19, 2020 by Dissent

Justin Hendry reports: The My Health Record system was the subject of an attempted hack over the past 11 months, the Australian Digital Health Agency has revealed. National health chief information officer Ronan O’Connor told a parliamentary inquiry into cyber resilience the cyber incident was one of two “potential data breaches” to occur since July…

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Arkansas Division of Workforce Services shut down portal after programmer discovers it put applicants’ data at risk

Posted on May 17, 2020 by Dissent

AP reports: A state program that was created to process unemployment applications in Arkansas for self-employed individuals or gig economy workers appears to have been illegally accessed and has been shut down, officials announced Saturday. Gov. Asa Hutchinson said he learned Friday evening that an applicant for the program is believed to have somehow accessed…

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Wright County notifies residents of 2019 email hack; COVID-19 response somewhat delayed notification

Posted on May 14, 2020 by Dissent

Notification of Data Security Incident May 13, 2020 Wright County, Minnesota – Notification of Data Security Incident This notice is to inform Wright County residents of a data security incident that potentially affected the personal information of county residents and non-residents in Wright County’s possession. We take the privacy and security of private information we…

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(Update1) The Palm Beach County School District suffers massive pwd breach after second grader hacks them

Posted on May 13, 2020 by Dissent

See an important update after the original post. From the no-one-could-have-possibly-foreseen-kids-figuring-out-default-password-conventions dept., Andrew Colton reports: The Palm Beach County School District is in the midst of a massive computer security crisis that draws into question the authenticity of every assignment completed by every student since “distance learning” began, after BocaNewsNow.com learned that an elementary school student…

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