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Ca: VerticalScope confirms user information stolen from six hacked websites

Posted on November 17, 2017 by Dissent

The Canadian Press reports: Toronto-based VerticalScope Inc. says six of the community websites it administers were hacked last month in the latest of a recent series of data breaches affecting Canadian online user information. […] It says the data did not include credit card or banking information but did include usernames, email addresses, encrypted passwords,…

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UK: Cash Converters hacked; customer data held for ransom

Posted on November 17, 2017 by Dissent

Tim Collins reports: Hackers who attacked the now defunct website of second hand goods store Cash Converters may have access to the account details of thousands of customers. Usernames, passwords, delivery addresses and potentially partial credit card numbers are among the data believed to have been stolen. The culprits are said to be holding the…

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Muslim Hacktivists Hack ISIS website; expose 2,000 subscribers list

Posted on November 12, 2017 by Dissent

Waqas reports: A group of Muslim hacktivists from Ahlus Sunnah Wal Jamaah, the Sunni sect of Islam and going by the online handle of Di5s3nSi0N hacked the official website of ISIS/ISIL (Daesh) and leaked a list of more than 2000 people who had subscribed to the site’s newsletter and updates through email. A week ago, the…

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Equifax spends $87.5 million on data breach, more expenses on deck

Posted on November 10, 2017 by Dissent

Larry Dignan reports: Equifax spent $87.5 million in the third quarter on its recent data breach. The disclosure, which came amid an earnings report that showed revenue growth of 4 percent to $834.8 million and net income of $96.3 million. In other words, the data breach affecting 145 million Equifax customers dented the cash cow,…

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Cracking the Code

Posted on November 9, 2017 by Dissent

Jason Leopold reports: One late morning in May 2016, the leaders of the Democratic National Committee huddled around a packed conference table and stared at Robert Johnston. The former Marine Corps captain gave his briefing with unemotional military precision, but what he said was so unnerving that a high-level DNC official curled up in a…

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He Perfected a Password-Hacking Tool—Then the Russians Came

Posted on November 9, 2017 by Dissent

Andy Greenberg reports: Five years ago, Benjamin Delpy walked into his room at the President Hotel in Moscow, and found a man dressed in a dark suit with his hands on Delpy’s laptop. Just a few minutes earlier, the then 25-year-old French programmer had made a quick trip to the front desk to complain about…

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