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Ca: Fines needed to help stem growing data breaches, Privacy Commissioner says

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Dissent

From the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada: STRATFORD, Ontario, May 4, 2011 – An alarming trend of ever-bigger data breaches is prompting Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart to call for substantial fines against major corporations that fail to adequately protect Canadians’ personal information from preventable breaches. “I am deeply troubled by the large number…

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In: BPO employee arrested for online card fraud

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Dissent

A BPO employee at Visakhapatnam was today arrested for online credit card fraud running into lakhs of rupees. The arrested, 25-year P Bala Vamsi Krishna, is a customer service representative in the BPO and a resident of Satyam Heights at SR Nagar. He was arrested following a complaint by R Sreekanth, the general manger of…

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SOE hacked: 12,700 credit card numbers and 24.6 million accounts may have been compromised

Posted on May 2, 2011 by Dissent

Togikagi writes: As we previously reported, all Sony Online Entertainment services, games, forums and web sites went offline this morning as a result of the recent Playstation Network intrusion. SOE just issued an announcement, and it appears that the personal information of players may have been compromised. Here are the details straight from SOE: “Our…

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Ie: TCD reports data breach

Posted on April 29, 2011 by Dissent

Another Irish college is reporting a data breach: A file containing the names of students and staff of Trinity College Dublin, along with their addresses, ID numbers and email addresses, was “inadvertently” made accessible on a local network, the college said. TCD said today it had reported the incident to the Data Protection Commissioner. The…

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Sony game user accounts breached; 77 mil. may be affected

Posted on April 27, 2011 by Dissent

Looks like we have a new addition to the Top 10 list of all-time biggest breaches. Taro Koyano of Yomiuri Shimbun reports: The personal information of about 77 million users worldwide of Sony Corp.’s PlayStation and Qriocity online services may have been leaked, the company said Tuesday. Sony said its PlayStation Network services for online…

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Software manufacturer Ashampoo hacked

Posted on April 21, 2011 by Dissent

Dear Ashampoo customer, We in the Ashampoo group take data privacy protection very seriously. Therefore we constantly strive to guarantee the maximum possible safety for our technical systems. Like many other companies we are targeted by organizations of hackers that try to break into IT systems in order to steal data. Unfortunately, one of our…

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