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Millions of S.Korean IDs Leaked to N.Korea

Posted on April 8, 2013 by Dissent

The Chosun Ilbo reports on a major prosecution in South Korea: The Seoul Central Prosecutors’ Office on Sunday charged two South Koreans with cooperating with North Korean hackers in China to run illegal websites and steal the personal information of millions of individuals. Investigators discovered the personal data of 140 million South Koreans on their…

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Japanese web portals hacked, up to 100,000 accounts compromised

Posted on April 4, 2013 by Dissent

Jay Alabaster reports: Two of Japan’s major Internet portals were hacked earlier this week, with one warning that as many as 100,000 user accounts were compromised, including financial details. Goo, a Japanese Internet portal owned by network operator NTT, said it had no choice but to lock 100,000 accounts to prevent illicit logins. The company…

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Hackers got personal info from state computers

Posted on April 4, 2013 by Dissent

I’m having one of those “WTH???” moments. Read this report from Associated Press: Some state employees and vendors who do business with Alabama are being notified that their personal information was accessed when hackers infiltrated a state computer system. The state Department of Homeland Security announced today that it was making the notifications, but wouldn’t…

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Debunking claims that Mossad’s database was leaked

Posted on March 29, 2013 by Dissent

In a blog post on March 24, I expressed my profound skepticism over claims that Mossad’s database of agents had been hacked and/or leaked. Today, HuHu points me to a blog post in which the more likely source of the leaked data is revealed.  The tagged email addresses in the leaked data suggest to HuHu…

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FTC lawsuit against Wyndham moves to New Jersey

Posted on March 29, 2013 by Dissent

I haven’t read the court document yet, but Law360 alerts us that Wyndham won a round in court and succeeded in getting the FTC’s lawsuit moved to New Jersey from Arizona.

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Montreal Police officers’ and undercover agents’ information dumped on Dropbox

Posted on March 20, 2013 by Dissent

Laura Casella reports: There has been an apparent security breach at the Montreal police department. Hackers have released a large amount of confidential files. […] The files are filled with personal information about the SPVM [Service de police de la Ville de Montréal]. What looks to be the most worrisome is a file containing the…

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