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Paddy Power discloses breach affecting 649K customers

Posted on July 31, 2014 by Dissent

Updated to include Paddy Power’s statement. John Mulligan reports on a data breach at the gambling firm Paddy Power, where details of over 649,000 customers have reportedly been stolen – perhaps as early as 2010: The stolen data includes personal information entered by customers signing up to the Paddy Power online service in 2010 and…

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Lasko’s system may have been hacked back in 2011

Posted on July 30, 2014 by Dissent

Ouch. Lasko is notifying some customers of the Lasko and Air King web sites that on July 2, they became aware that some customers were receiving phishing e-mails. Investigation suggested that it may have been related to a hack of their system that exposed customers’ names, email addresses, phone numbers, credit card numbers and card…

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Appeals Court Agrees To Hear Wyndham’s Challenge To FTC

Posted on July 30, 2014 by Dissent

Wendy Davis reports: A federal appeals court has agreed to decide whether the Federal Trade Commission can bring charges against companies based on their alleged failure to protect consumers’ data. The court’s move comes in response to a petition filed by Wyndham Hotels, which is fighting an FTC lawsuit alleging that the hotel chain didn’t…

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Turkish Man Extradited From The Republic Of Georgia Sentenced To More Than Nine Years For Computer Hacking And Identity Theft

Posted on July 29, 2014 by Dissent

An update on the case involving the hacking of the Se San Diego Hotel, although they don’t name the hotel in their press release: Senior U.S. District Judge John Antoon, II sentenced Alper Erdogan (35, a Turkish citizen residing in Baku, Azerbaijan) to nine years and four months in federal prison for conspiracy to commit…

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Michaels Breach Lawsuits Dismissed

Posted on July 25, 2014 by Dissent

Tracy Kitten reports: A district court in Illinois has dismissed a consolidated consumer class action lawsuit seeking damages from Michaels Stores Inc. for a card breach the arts and crafts retailer suffered starting in 2013. In a 20-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Elaine Bucklo says the six plaintiffs named in the consolidated suits failed to prove that they suffered “actual economic…

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Hacker Charged with Breaching Multiple Government Computers and Stealing Thousands of Employee and Financial Records

Posted on July 25, 2014 by Dissent

Lauri Love, 29, of Stradishall, England, was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia on charges of conspiracy, causing damage to a protected computer, access device fraud and aggravated identity theft. According to the indictment, beginning around October 2012, Love and his conspirators accessed without authorization protected computers belonging…

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