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Data Breach at New York Utility Prompts Enforcement Action and Industry-Wide Data Security Review

Posted on August 25, 2012 by Dissent

Boris Segalis and Nihar Shah provide some follow-up to a data security breach at New York State Electric & Gas and Rochester Gas and Electric that was disclosed in January. As I noted in July, regulators criticized NYSEG over the breach that had affected 1.8 million. Segalis and Shah write: The Commission subsequently issued an “Order Directing…

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Teenager arrested in Eugene school computer breach released

Posted on August 25, 2012 by Dissent

Back in June, the Eugene School District 4J in Oregon reported a breach.  A teenager who allegedly obtained an employee’s login credentials was subsequently charged. An affidavit submitted to obtain a search warrant of the student’s computer indicated that the teen had admitted to using a brute force program. Apparently, the teen has detained since…

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CabinCr3w member sentenced to 27 months in prison (updated)

Posted on August 24, 2012 by Dissent

Steven Kreytak reports that a Galveston man was sentenced by a federal judge to 27 months in federal prison for hacking into computers of the Texas Department of Public Safety, the Alabama Department of Public Safety, Houston County, Alabama and the West Virginia Chiefs of Police Association. Higinio O. Ochoa III, who pleaded guilty in…

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DSW Shoe Warehouse wins dispute with Chartis unit over data theft coverage

Posted on August 23, 2012 by Dissent

Judy Greenwald reports: A federal appellate court ruled Thursday that shoe retailer DSW Shoe Warehouse Inc. was entitled to insurance coverage of more than $6.8 million in stipulated losses and prejudgment interest from a Chartis Inc. unit in connection with a 2005 computer breach. In an incident widely reported at the time, DSW, a subsidiary…

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Ca: Memorial University hacked; Faculty of Business student data possibly accessed

Posted on August 23, 2012 by Dissent

Seen at VOCM: Files containing student information at the Faculty of Business at Memorial University may have been accessed by an unauthorized party earlier this week. As a result, all confidential information was secured on a different server, and, as a precaution, websites for the faculty and the Gardiner Centre were taken offline. Files containing…

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Some Bellacor customers who ordered online notified of security breach

Posted on August 22, 2012 by Dissent

Home lighting and furnishings retailer Bellacor has notified some of its web site customers of a recent breach. In their letter , a copy of which was posted on California’s breach report site, President and CEO James Lawrence informed those affected that their names, addresses, telephone numbers, and encrypted credit card numbers with security codes…

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