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LivingSocial Hacked — More Than 50 Million Customer Names, Emails, Birthdates and Encrypted Passwords Accessed (Internal Memo)

Posted on April 26, 2013 by Dissent

Update: Double-WOW. Their breach notice is already up on the California Attorney General’s web site. According to their submission to the state, the breach occurred on April 5 and was discovered on April 12. Original post follows: Wow. AllThingsD.com is reporting: LivingSocial, the daily deals site owned in part by Amazon, has suffered a massive…

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CA: Government data breached thousands of times in last decade, documents say

Posted on April 24, 2013 by Dissent

Jordan Press reports: The federal government has seen more than 3,000 data and privacy breaches over the past 10 years, breaches that have affected more than 725,350 Canadians, according to documents tabled in Parliament on Tuesday. The responses from departments, given to the New Democrats in response to an order paper question, also show that…

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Schnucks discloses details of breach affecting 2.4M customers

Posted on April 15, 2013 by Dissent

Last month, Schnucks Markets, a multi-state chain of grocery markets, disclosed that customers at some of its stores had become victims of card fraud. I duly entered the reports in DataLossDB.org, but didn’t post anything on this blog. This past week, I emailed Schnucks to ask for some more details. They declined to answer any…

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Vernon Township ordered to pay court costs after suing hapless recipients of employees’ SSN

Posted on April 5, 2013 by Dissent

Remember that ridiculous lawsuit by Vernon Township against individuals to whom it had accidentally released employees’ Social Security numbers?  There’s an update. Jessica Masulli Reyes reports: The individuals who received the Social Security numbers of 119 Vernon employees were ordered by a judge to sign certification saying that the confidential information was deleted and not disseminated….

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How Private Data Became Public on Amazon’s Cloud

Posted on March 27, 2013 by Dissent

Jordan Robertson reports: Companies that use Amazon’s popular cloud computing service have accidentally disclosed confidential information including sales records and source code, highlighting the risks of moving sensitive data to the Web, according to new research. Rapid7, a Boston-based security firm, said in a report released today that it found more than 126 billion files…

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Court Favors Bank in Fraud Dispute; Customer Had Declined Dual Authentication

Posted on March 22, 2013 by Dissent

More on the lawsuit and countersuit between Choice Escrow and Land Title and BancorpSouth, mentioned previously on this blog. Tracy Kitten reports: A federal court has sided with a Mississippi bank in a lingering dispute with a customer over financial losses linked to an account takeover incident dating back to March 2010. That means the bank will…

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