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Adobe warns 2.9 million customers of data breach after cyber-attack (Update5)

Posted on October 3, 2013 by Dissent

[Note: if you came to this site because you’re having trouble enrolling in Experian’s service with the Adobe activation code, jump to Update 5, below. Please do not simply post that the activation code didn’t work – tell us whether you tried Firefox if you were having problems with another browser.]. Adam Gabbatt reports that…

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Opening The Flood Gates? California Voters May Create Presumption Of Harm In Privacy Breach Cases

Posted on October 3, 2013 by Dissent

Julian D. Perlman of BakerHostetler writes: California has moved one step closer towards amending its Constitution to create a presumption of harm whenever personal data is shared without a consumer’s express opt-in, a change that would clear a significant hurdle to many privacy breach lawsuits. On Thursday, California Secretary of State Debra Bowen approved steps…

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Data Broker Hackers Also Compromised NW3C

Posted on October 1, 2013 by Dissent

In Part II of his latest investigative series, Brian Krebs reports: The same miscreants responsible for breaking into the networks of America’s top consumer and business data brokers appear to have also infiltrated and stolen huge amounts of data from the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C), a congressionally-funded non-profit organization that provides training, investigative support and research…

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Governor Brown signs SB 46 into law; expands California’s breach notification obligations when online account data is breached

Posted on September 27, 2013 by Dissent

Governor Jerry Brown signed SB 46 into law today. Dominique R. Shelton and Paul G. Martinoof of Alston & Bird had a good summary of the changes the law makes: S.B. 46 amends Section 1798.82(h) to expand the definition of “personal information” for which breach notification is required. The new law adds to the definition:…

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Data Broker Giants Hacked by ID Theft Service

Posted on September 25, 2013 by Dissent

Brian Krebs has a must-read investigative piece about how ssndob.ms – an underground marketplace selling oodles of usable personal information (some of which we saw earlier this year on exposed.su) –  gained access to major U.S. consumer and business data aggregators to obtain some of the data they were selling. LexisNexis, Dun & Bradstreet, Kroll…

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This hacker might seem shady, but throwing him in jail is bad for everyone

Posted on September 23, 2013 by Dissent

Timothy B. Lee writes: On Friday, the U.S. government filed its brief in the appeal of Andrew “Weev” Auernheimer, who was convicted of federal hacking charges for downloading hundreds of thousands of customer e-mail addresses from AT&T’s Web site. The government says the conviction was proper, but many security researchers and civil liberties advocates argue that the…

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