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Cn: 1,700 arrested on stealing personal data

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Dissent

Wow. He Dan reports: Police across the country have arrested more than 1,700 people on suspicion of stealing or misusing personal information, according to the Ministry of Public Security. Under the ministry’s deployment, police in 20 provincial-level regions, including Beijing and Shanxi, uncovered 38 operations where people’s personal details were being illegally traded, according to…

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Texas Error Exposed Over 13 Million Millions of Voters’ Social Security Numbers (updated)

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Dissent

I don’t know how he is on other issues, but Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is one of the most active AG’s when it comes to pursuing those who dump data or don’t secure it properly. I can only imagine how mortified he must be by this breach, which thankfully, could have been much worse…

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Computer specialist who had warned Iranian banks about vulnerability, hacks and dumps 3 million accounts to make his point

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Dissent

Is it just me, or have these folks missed the point? From The Tehran Times: A computer specialist, who used to work for a PSP (payment service provider) company which offers a number of Iranian banks services for accepting electronic payments, has hacked accounts of three million bank customers to show the vulnerability of the…

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Why MilitarySingles.com’s denial of breach fails to convince me (updated)

Posted on April 12, 2012 by Dissent

Some breach reports really bother me. The MilitarySingles.com situation is a case in point. Despite their denial of any breach, what I saw in the two data dumps leaves me with the nagging suspicion that they were hacked. And so I contacted them again almost two weeks ago, following their last statement, to ask to…

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Utah Dept. of Health hacked, over 500,000 700,000 affected and the number’s growing?

Posted on April 9, 2012 by Dissent

Marjorie Cortez provides an update on a breach that started out bad enough last week, and just got a lot worse:  Some 280,000 people had their Social Security numbers listed in state health data stolen from a computer server last week, state officials announced Monday, calling the data breach the largest in state history. Another…

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Global Payments confirms data breach (Update 2)

Posted on March 30, 2012 by Dissent

After being named by the Wall Street Journal earlier today, Global Payments Inc. has issued a press release about the breach reported earlier today by Brian Krebs: Global Payments Inc, a leader in payment processing services, announced it identified and self-reported unauthorized access into a portion of its processing system. In early March 2012, the…

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