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LeakedSource uploads data set with 32,888,300 Twitter credentials

Posted on June 8, 2016 by Dissent

From LeakedSource: Twitter credentials are being traded in the tens of millions on the dark web. LeakedSource has obtained and added a copy of this data to its ever-growing searchable repository of leaked data. This data set was provided to us by a user who goes by the alias “[email protected]”, and has given us permission…

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Morgan Stanley Fined Over Inadequate Security Tied to Galen Marsh Data Breach

Posted on June 8, 2016 by Dissent

Matt Robinson reports that Morgan Stanley has been fined $1 million by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to settle allegations that it failed to protect customer data improperly taken by a former financial adviser, Galen Marsh. Marsh pleaded guilty in September, 2015 to making thousands of unauthorized searches on his employer’s system and to copying information on…

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ERISA and Cybersecurity

Posted on June 6, 2016 by Dissent

Larry Goldstein of McGuireWoods LLP writes: Employee benefit plan data stored online may include participants’ names and Social Security numbers, account information and protected health information (PHI), all of which are inviting targets for hackers. Highly-publicized data breaches in recent years have called attention to the obligations of benefit plan administrators (typically the employers sponsoring…

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Extortion E-mail Schemes Tied to Recent High-Profile Data Breaches

Posted on June 1, 2016 by Dissent

A public service announcement from the FBI (Alert Number I-060116-PSA): The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) continues to receive reports from individuals who have received extortion attempts via e-mail related to recent high-profile data thefts. The recipients are told that personal information, such as their name, phone number, address, credit card information, and other personal details,…

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Danish Authorities Investigate OkCupid Incident

Posted on May 31, 2016 by Dissent

Joseph Cox reports the follow-up to a breach that I covered on PogoWasRight.org. The breach involved a Danish grad student dumping OkCupid users’ personal and sensitive info in a data set for “research” purposes, claiming it was “public” data. They had neither sought nor obtained consent to scrape the user database, and although they did not include…

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CFAA overreach: FBI raids home of security researcher

Posted on May 27, 2016 by Dissent

From the stop-me-if-you’ve-heard-this-one-before dept: Over on Daily Dot this morning, I reported that the FBI executed a search warrant at the home of researcher Justin Shafer.  Shafer’s name will be familiar to regular readers of DataBreaches.net because he exposed a long-standing security vulnerability in Dentrix software and challenged Henry Schein’s claims that their product provided “encryption.”  Our combined efforts resulted in…

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