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CT: Pet stores hit by hackers; customer info compromised

Posted on July 8, 2011 by Dissent

Russell Blair reports: There’s a new method of identity theft for consumers to worry about. Authorities say a hacker infiltrated the computer system of a pet store with locations at 1167 N. Colony Road and in Branford and stole credit card numbers at the point of sale, before they could be encrypted. All Pets Club…

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Universal Music passwords exposed by Anonymous hack

Posted on July 8, 2011 by Dissent

John Leyden reports: Universal Music websites suffered a breach that exposed the usernames and passwords of fans of bands who had signed up for updates on their favourite musicians. Infamous hacktivist group Anonymous claimed responsibility for the hack as part of its AntiSec campaign, which aims to expose the weak spots in the internet security…

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CA: San Jose’s Tech Museum hacked

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Dissent

Mike Rosenberg reports: The Tech, the popular downtown San Jose museum, said Wednesday that a hacker broke into three old files lingering on its system. The thief captured museum members’ names, email addresses, home addresses and phone numbers and posted them to Twitter on Friday before the information was taken down. Museum spokesman Roqua Montez…

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(update) Data breach potentially exposes 250 Clark College students’ information

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Dissent

More on an incident mentioned previously on this blog from Ian Larson in The Oregonian: A cyberattack last week may have exposed the personal information, including the names and student identification numbers, of 250 Clark College students. Nine students’ social security numbers were also briefly exposed in the data breach. The college quickly secured its computer systems…

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Washington Post reports breach of job seeker data (updated)

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Dissent

Elinor Mills reports: About 1.27 million user IDs and email addresses belonging to people looking for employment on The Washington Post jobs website were affected by a data breach in June, the newspaper has said. “We discovered that an unauthorised third party attacked our Jobs website and was able to obtain access to certain user…

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Out of sight, but not out of court

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Dissent

I’ve been busy recently, backfilling DataLossDB.org. I’m currently working on  2007 (because who wants to tackle 2008 until we have to, right?). In the process, I’ve been reminded of some breaches that most of us probably never paid much attention to or followed up on. As a case in point, consider  this entry in my…

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