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NH DHHS commissioner apologizes to families receiving breach notifications for deceased relatives

Posted on January 3, 2017 by Dissent

AP reports that New Hampshire’s health commissioner is offering an extra apology as his agency deals with a data breach that led to personal information of up to 15,000 people being posted online. The extra apology follows recent media coverage describing the emotional reaction of a woman who received a letter addressed to her son…

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OH: Hilliard Bradley High School hacked, students’ information exposed

Posted on January 3, 2017 by Dissent

Tyler Carter reports: Officials say students’ private information was exposed at Hilliard Bradley High School. Authorities say two students are to blame. Court documents state that a student at Hilliard Bradley High School hacked into a school computer and stole other students’ login information. Read more on NBC4.  The report cites the police as saying…

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UK: Derbyshire computer hacker who broke into a company’s emails is now helping it get secure

Posted on January 1, 2017 by Dissent

Kit Sandeman reports that a 24-year-old man from London who was arrested after targeting an unnamed organization in Derbyshire has been given a “restorative justice” option: The man admitted accessing email accounts by using information found on social media sites such as LinkedIn and Facebook to identify targets, and bypass their security questions. This then…

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2016 goes out with a hack as thedarkoverlord dumps more data

Posted on January 1, 2017 by Dissent

At 00:00 UTC, TheDarkOverlord issued a “press release.” Depending on where you reside, it made for a bad end to 2016, which was already a pretty terrible year for breaches, or a rotten start to 2017.  Several days ago, DataBreaches.net reported on several hacks TheDarkOverlord (TDO) had announced.  As expected, TDO has now dumped more data from…

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KeepKey notifies customers of security incident, offers 30 BTC reward for tips leading to attacker’s arrest

Posted on December 31, 2016 by Dissent

KeepKey, a hardware bitcoin wallet, has disclosed how a brief compromise of the company phone and email enabled the attacker to reset some account passwords. Here’s how KeepKey responded to the attack and the attacker: A Message from the Founder About Email Breach Our guiding principle at KeepKey is building open and transparent products for our most…

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Topps’ payment card breach was just its latest data security incident

Posted on December 31, 2016 by Dissent

A number of sites have now reported on Topps‘ recent disclosure that on October 12, it became aware of unauthorized access to payment card information for customers using the topps.com website between July 30 and October 12. A copy of the sports card and memorabilia giant’s notification can be found on several state regulators’ sites but not, it seems…

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