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UK: Computer expert at centre of credit card scam is jailed

Posted on June 13, 2011 by Dissent

Chris Osuh reports: A crooked IT expert at the centre of a major credit card scam kitted out a shop with his ill-gotten gains. Fraudster Syed Tirmizi traded the personal banking details of unsuspecting customers with online criminals, hoarded equipment for making bogus credit cards, and made a string of purchases using other people’s money….

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(follow-up) Ireland to extradite “Boards.ie hacker”?

Posted on June 13, 2011 by Dissent

Back in January 2010, this blog lined to a report that Boards.ie had been hacked.  Irish tech lawyer and professor TJ McIntyre notes that additional information on the breach was subsequently published on Boards.ie and the following month,  The Sunday Times reported: The hacker has already used stolen passwords and email addresses to access credit…

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(update) NZ: National admits Labour data breach – but denies passing names to Whaleoil

Posted on June 13, 2011 by Dissent

NZPA and NBR staff report the latest in the Labour Party donor list breach reported on this blog last night: The National Party has admitted exploiting a security hole in the Labour Party website but denies passing data to a right-wing blogger who plans to release the names of Labour Party donors. The Privacy Commissioner…

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NZ: Labour apologizes over data breach (update1)

Posted on June 12, 2011 by Dissent

The New Zealand Press Association reports: The Labour Party has apologised to donors, after a right-wing blogger said he would release their personal details following what the party called a malicious breach of its website. In an email sent to donors yesterday, party secretary Chris Flatt said an investigation was launched after the discovery of…

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(In)security update: Arrests in Sony hacking, plus Acer breach

Posted on June 10, 2011 by Dissent

Levi Sumagaysay writes: Spain has arrested three people in connection with hacking Sony’s PlayStation Network. According to the Wall Street Journal, Spanish police say the three are members of hacker group Anonymous, which has recently claimed responsibility for various attacks on companies such as MasterCard and Visa, as well as Sony. (Although Anonymous has said it was…

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UK: Codemasters.com hacked, personal info may have been acquired

Posted on June 10, 2011 by Dissent

Seen at http://m0unds.net/files/breach/codemasters.html via @m0unds: Subject: Important information regarding your account From: “Codemasters” Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 13:27:25 -0000 To: [email protected] On Friday 3rd June, unauthorised entry was gained to our Codemasters.com website. As soon as the intrusion was detected, we immediately took codemasters.com and associated web services offline in order to prevent any…

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