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Austrian TV users’ bank account data acquired by hackers

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Dissent

Associated Press reports: The Austrian authority that collects state television fees from customers says hackers have stolen 214,000 data files from its server, including 96,000 containing sensitive bank account information. GIS says the cyberattack by a group identifying itself as “AustrAnon” occurred Friday. It said Monday that it has started informing customers whose data has…

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UK to AU: Stolen credit and debit details emailed across the world

Posted on July 22, 2011 by Dissent

Matt Dunn reports: More than 1500 credit and debit card details stolen in Britain were emailed to Australia to be placed on blank Crown and Coles Myer cards and used to fleece major banks, a court has heard. Victoria Police seized a computer at an Endeavour Hills address and found 27 draft emails sent from…

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Hackers reveal personal data of Colombian police officials

Posted on July 22, 2011 by Dissent

Adriaan Alsema reports: Hackers announced Wednesday they had sent spam bombs to some 250 officials of Colombia’s national Police and revealed personal data of employees of the National Police inviting the public to harass the officials. In a statement published online, the hackers thanked the National Police “for keeping us submitted and trampled.” In the same statement,…

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Now if there had been a mandatory disclosure law in the U.K….

Posted on July 21, 2011 by Dissent

Speaking of notifying consumers about a breach, the House of Commons – Home Affairs Committee report, “Unauthorised tapping into or hacking of mobile communications,” was released yesterday and notes how mobile operators failed their customers by not notifying them that their privacy and records had been breached: However, the companies cannot escape criticism completely. Neither…

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Russia Amends Federal Data Protection Law; Privacy Enforcement on the Rise

Posted on July 20, 2011 by Dissent

Boris Segalis writes: Last week, the upper house of Russia’s federal legislature approved amendments to the country’s federal data protection law. The amendments impose detailed information security requirements on businesses that process personal data and revise some of the statute’s data subject consent provisions.The amended law will come into force when it is published in the…

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LulzSec Hacks The Times with Brutal Murdoch Death Notice

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Dissent

Brian Barrett reports: Well, seems like LulzSec has returned, and moved beyond the DDOS attack! Not content to merely shut down one of Rupert Murdoch’s paper’s websites, the hacking group has instead planted a bizarro-Onionesque account of the mogul’s death-by-palladium on a Times redesign page masquerading as The Sun. Well played, #AntiSec. Read more on Gizmodo. As to why I’m…

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