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Finnish Government Hit With ‘Serious’ Data Breach

Posted on November 2, 2013 by Dissent

Angela Moscaritolo reports: The Finnish government has confirmed it suffered a “serious data security violation,” which was reportedly carried out over a period of four years and allowed hackers to pilfer unspecified amounts of data. The breach affected the Finnish Foreign Service Internet network, which contains information and data “of the lowest classification level,” according…

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Harbor Freight Tools USA notifies customers that payment processing system was hacked (updated)

Posted on November 1, 2013 by Dissent

Harbor Freight Tools USA has been notifying customers of a hack that occurred in May and was discovered on July 2. In their letter, they write: Over the summer, Harbor Freight Tools’ payment processing system was illegally attacked by cyber-criminals. The attack was similar to attacks reported by other national retailers. In response, we immediately…

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Hosting Service MongoHQ Suffers Major Security Breach That Explains Buffer’s Hack Over The Weekend

Posted on October 30, 2013 by Dissent

Alex Williams writes: NoSQL Database hosting service MongoHQ,  a Y Combinator alum, has suffered a major security breach that appears to be a major factor in an attack over the weekend on Buffer, the social media scheduling service. The MongoHQ intrusion is affecting customers of the hosting service and potentially also their S3 storage accounts on Amazon Web Services (AWS). MongoHQ…

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Arts Block website suffers hack attacks

Posted on October 30, 2013 by Dissent

Of course, there are a gadzillion hacks of smaller sites going on every week, but this one caught my eye. Richie Davis reports: When Ed Wierzbowski bought Greenfield’s Arms Block and the former Franklin Savings Institution to bring high-profile musical performances to local audiences, the last thing he imagined having to deal with was Indonesian…

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Update: Adobe Breach Impacted At Least 38 Million Users

Posted on October 29, 2013 by Dissent

Brian Krebs has updated his investigation into the Adobe hack that was originally reported to have affected 2.9 million customers. In a post on KrebsonSecurity.com today, Brian writes that at least 38 million are affected. But just this past weekend, AnonNews.org posted a huge file called “users.tar.gz” that appears to include more than 150 million username and…

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After investigative report reveals database compromise, Dun & Bradstreet notifies consumers (updated)

Posted on October 28, 2013 by Dissent

Last month, Brian Krebs revealed that SSNDOB, an identity theft service, operated a botnet that tapped into some of the biggest databases in the country to get the information they sold. One of those firms was Dun & Bradstreet: Two other compromised systems were located inside the networks of Dun & Bradstreet, a Short Hills,…

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