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Credit card info of donors to pro-Muslim or anti-islamophobia organizations leaked

Posted on December 20, 2015 by Dissent

Update: Post-publication, the Virtue Center web site was taken offline and has not returned as of December 23. An undated entry on another site lists Shakil Islam and Faizan Sattar as “former employers” of VC. At the time of publication, however, they were listed on VC’s web site as part of their team. Follow-up e-mail…

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Database leak exposes 3.3 million Hello Kitty fans (UPDATED)

Posted on December 20, 2015 by Dissent

Over on Salted Hash, Steve Ragan reports on yet another MongoDB Database leak uncovered by Chris Vickery. This one involves a database for sanriotown.com, the official online community for Hello Kitty and other Sanrio characters. As such, a lot of children’s information may be in the database. The records exposed include first and last names, birthday…

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Healthcare industry gets cybersecurity support in omnibus bill

Posted on December 19, 2015 by Dissent

Beth Kutscher reports: The healthcare information technology sector is hailing healthcare-specific cybersecurity provisions that have made their way into the massive omnibus legislation that Congress passed on Friday. The $1.1 trillion spending and tax extender bill, which is now on its way to President Barack Obama, includes language that closely follows the recommendations from the Healthcare Information…

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UK: Schools reported for hack attacks and data breaches avoid ICO punishment

Posted on December 19, 2015 by Dissent

From the get-of-jail-free dept., Freddie Whittaker reports: Dozens of schools that breached data protection rules have walked away without punishment, despite being reported to the information watchdog. New figures obtained exclusively by Schools Week show that during the past school year the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) dealt with 66 reports of breaches by schools of the Data…

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LifeLock to Pay $100 Million to Consumers to Settle FTC Charges it Violated 2010 Order (Updated)

Posted on December 17, 2015 by Dissent

I had previously reported that LifeLock was negotiating to settle FTC charges that it had violated a 2010 consent order. Now it’s official. From the FTC: LifeLock will pay $100 million to settle Federal Trade Commission contempt charges that it violated the terms of a 2010 federal court order that requires the company to secure…

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UAE: Extortion demand refused by InvestBank, hacker goes on data dump rampage

Posted on December 16, 2015 by Dissent

Mazhar Farooqui reports an update to a hack and data dump involving InvestBank customers: The cyber criminal who hacked into a Sharjah bank last month has gone on the rampage. After the bank refused to give into his blackmail and pay $3 million in ransom money, the criminal Hacker Buba has posted the confidential details…

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