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UK: Tesco Bank fraud risk after data lost in post

Posted on July 30, 2010 by Dissent

Ed Monk reports: Tesco Bank has lost the personal details of dozens of customers, leaving them exposed to the risk of fraud, after staff sent unprotected personal data in the post. It is thought the customers affected were already in angry dispute with Tesco Bank over charges for controversial payment protection insurance on Tesco credit…

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15 released pending trial in massive ID theft in Turkey

Posted on July 28, 2010 by Dissent

Fifteen people charged with selling computer programs offering illegally acquired identity information on nearly the country’s entire population were released Wednesday pending trial in Istanbul. Police announced Tuesday the cracking of the ring that had been stealing Turks’ identity information, including their names, addresses and telephone numbers. […] The Hürriyet reporter wrote that had he…

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AU: Personal data ‘left open to frauds’

Posted on July 28, 2010 by Dissent

Richard Willingham reports: The security of personal information held by the state government is inadequate, leaving it at a heightened risk of being stolen and misused by frauds, a report has found. An Auditor-General’s report into government departments, released yesterday, said access to confidential personal data was too widespread and increased the risk of identity…

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Botnet mastermind who infected 12m PCs nabbed : FBI

Posted on July 28, 2010 by Dissent

International authorities have arrested a computer hacker believed responsible for creating the malicious computer code that infected as many as 12 million computers, invading major banks and corporations around the world, FBI officials said A 23-year-old Slovenian known as Iserdo was snagged in Maribor, Slovenia, after a lengthy investigation by Slovenian Criminal Police there along…

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(follow-up) AU: Alleged hacker pleads guilty to data theft

Posted on July 26, 2010 by Dissent

ABC News in Australia reports: An alleged computer hacker has confirmed guilty pleas to charges of theft of personal information. South Australian police alleged Anthony Scott Harrison, 21, infected more than 3,000 computers worldwide with software designed to capture bank and credit card details and had potential to infect up to 74,000 computers. Harrison has…

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(follow-up) NZ: Celebrities hit in Hell Pizza hack

Posted on July 25, 2010 by Dissent

As I’ve often argued, even just acquiring a home address in a breach can be problematic. The Hell Pizza breach may have created potential privacy problems for a number of celebrities, it seems. A pizza company’s customer database has been hacked and the details of several celebrities stolen. DJ Mike Puru, Target presenter Brooke Howard-Smith,…

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