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Update on Alico breach

Posted on July 27, 2009 by Dissent

Insurance firm Alico Japan said Monday the suspected leakage of its customers’ credit card information may have led to about 2,200 cases of credit card fraud, more than twice as many as in its previous announcement. Kazuyuki Takahashi, representative of the Japanese insurer affiliated with American International Group Inc, told a press conference that credit…

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Files vanished, young Chinese lose the future

Posted on July 27, 2009 by Dissent

There is a bizarre story out of China were dozens of Chinese students have seen their future wiped out by the disappearance of their manila folders containing their records. In China, these paper folders follow a student throughout his or her career with every achievement, score, and prospect for a college education. While Chinese officials…

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Thomas Cook info blowing in the wind

Posted on July 27, 2009 by Dissent

Staff at a Dundee travel agent have been told to tighten up their procedures for handling confidential documents after a sheet of paper containing sensitive information was found in a city centre street (writes Maura Bowman). A concerned passer-by handed the document in to the Evening Telegraph as he feared it could fall into the…

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Cardiff Council’s laptop thefts revealed

Posted on July 27, 2009 by Dissent

A councillor has criticised Cardiff council after discovering 22 laptops and seven computers have been stolen from civic offices in the last four years. Ramesh Patel said the revelation raised fears about the security of data held on computers in council buildings and the care that was taken with taxpayers’ cash. Read more in Wales…

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Credit card blunder not the first transaction error

Posted on July 26, 2009 by Dissent

A Carterton resident caught in a BNZ [Bank of New Zealand] privacy breach says his scrupulous home audits have uncovered similar transaction errors and saved him thousands. The man, who declined to be named, triggered a BNZ blunder after a check of their credit card statement in January revealed a $20 transaction source out of…

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Credit industry slow to protect customers from CreditMaster scam

Posted on July 25, 2009 by Dissent

Recent cases in which people have been charged with online fraud for allegedly making purchases with illegally obtained credit card numbers have shed light on the lack of effective measures taken to frustrate the CreditMaster scam used in these incidents, even though the credit card industry was already aware of its existence. The industry is…

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