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MWeb hacked, users’ details exposed (updated)

Posted on October 25, 2010 by Dissent

Duncan McLeod reports: The accounts of thousands of MWeb broadband customers appear to have been compromised, with their logon and password details apparently published on the Internet by hackers. As many as 2,390 users of MWeb’s business digital subscriber lines have been affected. […] The list, which includes accounts belonging to several prominent businesses, including…

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UK: Darwen firm’s customer data posted online

Posted on October 23, 2010 by Dissent

Catherine Pye reports: Crown Paints could be fined for data breaches after publishing personal details of hundreds of customers online. Enquiries and complaints entered this year on Crown’s Decorating Centre website, featuring home addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses were made public after an internet hitch on Friday morning. The Darwen-based company is now being…

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Tempering justice with mercy?

Posted on October 23, 2010 by Dissent

A number of people have commented on Twitter and on this blog that the young man who was arrested for breaching the Houston Healthcare database should have been thanked and/or hired. If this were 1983, I might agree with them, but I found myself taking a harder line about the breach as it was not…

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Surrey RCMP and Vancouver Police Department disrupt credit card fraud ring

Posted on October 22, 2010 by Dissent

An extensive number of charges are being considered against individuals in the Lower Mainland after the Surrey RCMP and the Vancouver Police Department teamed up to put a stop to a fraud ring operating out of Vancouver. The Surrey RCMP Combined Forces Identity Theft Team (CFITT) began a Fraud investigation after receiving information regarding a…

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Thames Valley District hacker: “I did it to prove to people that their information isn’t as secure as they think”

Posted on October 21, 2010 by Dissent

Norman De Bono updates the story on the Thames Valley District hack: The board’s student portal was hacked, and Facebook quickly became rife with reports it was the work of a 16-year-old, Lucan-area student in Grade 11 at Medway high school in Arva. In Facebook message exchanges, someone purporting to be the youth said he…

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FSA loses 41 laptops and Blackberries in three years

Posted on October 21, 2010 by Dissent

From the U.K. -ministry-of-irony: A regular criticism from the FSA when it comes to issuing bans on financial advisors is that they failed to demonstrate being ‘a fit and proper person’… the regulator might want to discuss these attributes with its workers, who have lost 41 laptops and Blackberries in the last year. All of…

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