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Talk Talk hack: Co Antrim schoolboy suing Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail and The Sun for alleged breach of privacy

Posted on November 6, 2015 by Dissent

Remember when I expressed surprise on Twitter that The Telegraph, a UK publication, actually named this kid? Within hours, the publication silently deleted it, but there’s been so much reported online and on Twitter that his identity is pretty much out there already.  Alan Erwin reports: A Co Antrim schoolboy arrested over the cyber attack on TalkTalk…

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UK: Police watchdog to probe claims 2002 theft of Special Branch personnel info at Castlereagh police station involved inside help

Posted on November 6, 2015 by Dissent

On March 17, 2002, there was a break-in and burglary at Castlereagh police station. The records that were stolen put lives at risk, as the stolen data included  a list of officers in the Special Branch intelligence unit with contact details, and the code names of paramilitary agents and their handlers. Dozens of officers subsequently had to move…

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In a first, the FCC is fining a major cable company for getting hacked

Posted on November 5, 2015 by Dissent

Brian Fung reports: In the first such case against a U.S. cable company, federal regulators are slapping Cox Communications with a $595,000 fine after Cox allowed hackers from Lizard Squad to penetrate its systems and steal private customer information. By posing as an IT administrator and tricking a couple of Cox employees into giving up their login credentials, a…

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How Hackers Breached Two Gambling Payment Providers To Harvest ‘Millions’ Of Records ) (UPDATED)

Posted on November 5, 2015 by Dissent

Two breaches seemed small and innocuous at the time, but weren’t. A timely reminder why entities should notify even when they think risk is low. Thomas Fox-Brewster reports: In 2009 and 2010 two separate attacks hit widely-used online gambling payments processors Moneybookers and Neteller. Though they initially appeared innocuous, it now seems both attacks saw millions of…

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UK: Crown Prosecution Service fined £200,000 for breach involving contractor

Posted on November 4, 2015 by Dissent

Back in September, I prefaced a breach post involving the U.K.’s Crown Prosecution Service with the comment, “This is one of those really terrible breaches that are the stuff of nightmares.”  It appears the Information Commissioner’s Office concurred, as  CPS has been fined £200,000 after laptops containing videos of police interviews were stolen from a private…

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Six months after OPM hack detected, 75% of victims still not notified

Posted on November 3, 2015 by Dissent

Dustin Volz reports: Fewer than a quarter of 21 million federal workers hit by a major computer hack have been officially told that their personal information was compromised, six months after the breach was detected, a U.S. government official said on Tuesday. About 5 million notifications about the hack have been sent out so far,…

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