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No evidence that any data removed from system: Premera

Posted on April 21, 2015 by Dissent

On April 18, DataBreaches.net addressed a question raised by some as to whether the Premera breach had resulted in any tax refund fraud or other types of fraud. At the time of posting, Premera had not responded to the inquiries sent to them. Today, DataBreaches.net received the following answers: 1. Does Premera now have any evidence…

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EFCC Arraigns Hacker For N68bn Theft

Posted on April 21, 2015 by Dissent

From a statement by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC): The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, April 20, 2015 arraigned one Stephen Omaidu before Justice M. A Nasir of Federal Capital Territory High Court sitting in Jabi, Abuja on a two count charge bordering on theft to the tune of N68,028,000,000.00 (sixty…

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MS: Former consultant arrested for copying and selling data

Posted on April 21, 2015 by Dissent

In today’s installment of The Threat Among Us, a consultant copies his employer’s data and then allegedly sells it to another business, despite having a confidentiality agreement in place. The FBI reports that on April 8, 2015, members of the Jackson FBI’s Cyber Task Force arrested Thomas A. Wotring, age 28. The arrest was made…

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Teenagers Suspected of Hacking Belgian and French Websites

Posted on April 18, 2015 by Dissent

AFP reports: Two teenagers are suspected of having hacked the websites of Belgian and French newspapers earlier in the week, prosecutors said Friday. “The regional unit of computer crime managed …to identify the presumed perpetrators” of the cyber attacks Sunday and Monday, Brussels prosecutors said in a statement. The attacks were launched against the websites of Le…

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FBI watched as NullCrew dumped Bell Canada passwords online

Posted on April 17, 2015 by Dissent

Andrew Seymour reports: When Bell Canada’s website was hacked last year — and the accounts and passwords of more than 12,000 Canadians posted online — the Federal Bureau of Investigation was not only watching, but letting the hackers stage the attack from what was secretly an FBI server. The bureau had spent more than a year keeping tabs on the 15-year-old Canadian teenager,…

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Northwestern U. hacked, but no personal info on server

Posted on April 17, 2015 by Dissent

Part of Northwestern University‘s network has been offline for over a week as a result of a hack first disclosed on Twitter. On April 5, “MLT” reported a XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) vulnerability on XSSposed.org involving themayor.itcs.northwestern.edu. And then this happened: Some Random University Login page : http://themayor.itcs.northwestern.edu/user.php?error=1 Admin Email : [email protected] Password : manager Yours Truly, ~Chief. — Chief (@Puttied) April…

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