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UK: Hampshire school breached data protection rules

Posted on August 8, 2011 by Dissent

From the Information Commissioner’s Office: Bay House School in Hampshire breached the Data Protection Act after the personal details of nearly 20,000 individuals, including some 7,600 pupils, were put at risk during a hacking attack on its website. The hack – which happened in March and involved one of the school’s pupils – exposed pupils’…

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AntiSec hackers release ‘largest cache yet’ of law enforcement data

Posted on August 6, 2011 by Dissent

Zack Whittaker reports: Hackers associated with the AntiSec movement — a LulzSec and Anonymous combined effort to breach systems with weak security — have released a 10GB in size cache of data belonging to law enforcement. Known as ‘Shooting Sherrifs Saturday’, this follows ‘F**k FBI Friday’ in June, where LulzSec published hundreds of hacked usernames,…

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(update) Travelodge blames ‘vindictive individual’ for email database breach

Posted on August 5, 2011 by Dissent

John Leyden has a follow-up on an e-mail hack  The Register initially revealed in June and that I covered on this blog. Travelodge UK’s explanation doesn’t fully answer my questions, but here’s part of it: This enquiry has thoroughly examined our own IT infrastructures and databases and those belonging to our suppliers as well. The…

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University of Arizona responds to email hack

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Dissent

DA Morales reports on an email hack that didn’t involve any PII but serves as a reminder that you can have a long passphrase or great password, but that’s not enough: The computer security at the UA seems tough to beat, or so it seemed until last night. If you have ever had to set…

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How sweet it isn’t: Hershey notifies some web site users of a hack

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Dissent

A reader sent in this breach notification he received yesterday. Stay with it because although it starts out talking about the security of their recipes and how important accuracy is to them, eventually they get around to notifying people that their names, dates of birth, street and e-mail addresses, and passwords may have been accessed…

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Korean national ID numbers spring up all over Chinese Web

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Dissent

Robert Lee reports: The number of leaked Korean social security numbers available online is likely to skyrocket as a massive social network hacking attack left more than three quarters of the nation exposed. A quick search using the keywords, “Korean social security numbers,” on Baidu, a Chinese Internet search engine, showed about 1.39 million results….

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