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Pelosi bombarded with ‘obscene and sick’ calls, texts after cyber attack

Posted on August 15, 2016 by Dissent

As I’ve repeatedly noted over the years, sometimes even just contact info can  pose problems for people if it is breached. Erin Kelly reports:  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Saturday that she has been bombarded with “obscene and sick calls, voice mails and text messages” after her personal contact information was posted online Friday night in the wake of…

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Soros, the Open Society Foundations, and the Continued Political Hacks

Posted on August 14, 2016 by Dissent

RBS reports: As we reported previously, a website called DC Leaks published internal data about the Open Society Foundations, an organization run by George Soros that describes itself as working “to build vibrant and tolerant democracies whose governments are accountable and open to the participation of all people.” The bulk of the data, which totals 1.51GB…

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Russian MP’s son faces trial in US over $170 million hacking scheme

Posted on August 14, 2016 by Dissent

If you’ve been meaning to catch up with the case against Roman Seleznev, a Times of Malta report by Martha Bellisle should help. Seleznev’s trial begins next week, and prosecutors plan to lay out evidence that they say will prove Roman Seleznev hacked into US businesses, mostly pizza restaurants in Washington state, and stole credit card…

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Olympics: Hackers attack Russian whistleblower’s doping account

Posted on August 13, 2016 by Dissent

AFP reports: Unknown attackers have hacked into Russian whistleblower Yuliya Stepanova’s World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) records, the watchdog announced Saturday (Aug 13). The runner, who was excluded from the Rio Olympics and lives in hiding in the United States, has been a key source of information on accusations that the Russian government organised doping on…

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UK: Sage suffers data breach that may impact employees of as many as 300 companies

Posted on August 13, 2016 by Dissent

Lauren Fedor reports: Personal details and bank account information for employees of as many as 300 UK companies may have been compromised as part of a data breach at Sage, the UK software group. […] On Friday, the Newcastle-based group notified around 200 of its current UK business customers that their information — including employee bank…

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Hacker Publishes List Of Cell Phone Numbers, Private E-Mails For Most House Democrats

Posted on August 12, 2016 by Dissent

The Smoking Gun reports: After disappearing for a couple of weeks, the hacker “Guccifer 2.0” returned late this afternoon to provide a new headache for Democrats. In a post to his WordPress blog, the vandal–who previously provided nearly 20,000 Democratic National Committee e-mails to Wikileaks–uploaded an Excel file that includes the cell phone numbers and private e-mail…

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