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LinkedIn suffers huge bot attack that steals members’ personal data

Posted on August 12, 2016 by Dissent

Ethan Baron reports: Data thieves used a massive “botnet” against professional networking site LinkedIn and stole member’s personal information, a new lawsuit reveals. The Mountain View firm filed the federal suit this week in an attempt to uncover the perpetrators. “LinkedIn members populate their profiles with a wide range of information concerning their professional lives, including summaries (narratives…

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NL: Personal data of 3700 Ede residents leaked through municipal site

Posted on August 11, 2016 by Dissent

Janene Pieters reports: The personal information of about 3,700 Ede residents were accessed by unauthorized persons due to a security vulnerability on the municipal site, a spokesperson for the municipality confirmed to NU.nl. The unauthorized persons had access to a database that is linked to a contact form. Residents could submit a question or asked to be…

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Analysis of World Check data leak by Risk Based Security: Hackers & Collectives

Posted on August 10, 2016 by Dissent

From RBS: In early July, it was revealed that a Thomson Reuters service known as World-Check had licensed information to a client that subsequently failed to secure the database. The leak, discovered by Chris Vickery, affected over 2.2 million persons identified as “heightened-risk individuals” that had been included in the World-Check database between 3/17/2000 and 9/17/2014. Shortly after the discovery, Risk…

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Dota2 forums hacked

Posted on August 10, 2016 by Dissent

As seen on LeakedSource.com: Dota2 official forums was hacked on July 10th, 2016 (http://dev.dota2.com). This data set contains 1,923,972 records. Each record contains an email address, ip address, username, user identifier, and one password. Oh, look… the forum runs on vBulletin. Gee, where have we seen something like this before, I wonder….

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Ca: Brant County Health Unit says 494 personal records breached

Posted on August 9, 2016 by Dissent

CTV Kitchener reports: An unauthorized person gained access to the immunization records of nearly 500 people, the Brant County Health Unit says. According to the health unit, the recently discovered breach involves the records of 494 people who submitted information on their child’s immunization via the BCHU website between July 2015 and October 2015. Read…

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‘It was an attack’: Australian census website collapses due to ‘malicious foreign hackers’

Posted on August 9, 2016 by Dissent

Catherine Healey reports: The Australian Bureau of Statistics claims its Census website collapsed after it was attacked by foreign hackers. ABS chief statistician David Kalisch told ABC radio Wednesday morning he was certain the Census website had come under a “malicious attack” from a foreign entity. “The online census form was subject to four denial…

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