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JSTOR notifying 800 users that account information was accessed by unauthorized individual(s)

Posted on April 1, 2014 by Dissent

JSTOR, a not-for-profit  founded to help academic libraries and publishers (and part of ITHAKA), is notifying 800 users of a breach discovered on March 17: RE: Important Security Notice from JSTOR We are writing to let you know that your MyJSTOR account was recently accessed without authorization by a third party. What this means to you…

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United Opt Out attacked; site destroyed

Posted on April 1, 2014 by Dissent

Shame on whoever did this: someone attacked United Opt Out, an information resource and advocacy site for parents who want to opt their children out of mandated state tests/high stakes testing. The organization also resists “market-based reforms that seek to privatize and destroy public education.” In a statement sent to DataBreaches.net, Peggy Robertson, one of…

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Bank drops lawsuit against Target and Trustwave

Posted on March 31, 2014 by Dissent

Jeremy Kirk reports that Trustmark National Bank, one of the two plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed by banks against Target and Trustwave, has filed a notice of voluntary dismissal to drop their role in the lawsuit. Because the lawsuit was dropped without prejudice, the bank may re-file the suit at some point, although I suspect…

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Claims that Trustwave was responsible for monitoring Target’s network “baseless” – Trustwave

Posted on March 30, 2014 by Dissent

Yesterday, Trustwave issued a statement on its website about allegations made in lawsuits against Target naming it as a co-defendant. The letter, signed by Trustwave CEO Robert J. McCullen reads: March 29, 2014 Dear Customers and Business Partners, As some of you may know, Trustwave was recently named as a defendant in lawsuits relating to the…

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Hacked Japanese Building Research Institute responds to hack

Posted on March 29, 2014 by Dissent

A hacker who identifies him/herself as BH_Hacker has dumped data on Pastebin that allegedly comes from a kenken.go.jp database. The National Institute of Building Research  identifies itself as an incorporated administrative agency of Japan. The data dump contains 330 records with first and last names, usernames, email addresses, and telephone numbers. With one exception, there were…

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In split vote, MCCCD extends contract with law firm for data breach-related services (updated)

Posted on March 29, 2014 by Dissent

I usually don’t find news about law firms’ contracts with respect to data breach-related services particularly noteworthy, but in the context of Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD)’s data breach response, there’s been a  newsworthy aspect. Last year, MCCCD hired the law firm of Wilson Elser to handle their breach response. As I noted on…

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