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LulzSec Hacks The Times with Brutal Murdoch Death Notice

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Dissent

Brian Barrett reports: Well, seems like LulzSec has returned, and moved beyond the DDOS attack! Not content to merely shut down one of Rupert Murdoch’s paper’s websites, the hacking group has instead planted a bizarro-Onionesque account of the mogul’s death-by-palladium on a Times redesign page masquerading as The Sun. Well played, #AntiSec. Read more on Gizmodo. As to why I’m…

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Settlement of yet another lawsuit against WellPoint /Anthem Blue Cross gets preliminary approval

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Dissent

If you feel like you need a scorecard to keep track of lawsuits against WellPoint or settlements involving WellPoint, it’s understandable. WellPoint recently settled a lawsuit by the Indiana Attorney General’s Office over delayed notification following a breach that occurred in 2009 and continued until after a customer notified them twice in 2010.   Then they settled…

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(follow-up) UniCare Life & Health Insurance Class Action Settlement

Posted on July 14, 2011 by Dissent

How did I not know about this lawsuit – or did I just forget?  In any event, Kimberly Mirando posts the news on Top Class Actions: UniCare Life and Health Insurance Company and Wellpoint, Inc. have reached a class action lawsuit settlement over allowing members’ private information to be leaked online. As a result, UniCare members…

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Anonymous Leaks 90,000 Military Email Accounts in Latest #AntiSec Attack on Booz Allen Hamilton (updated)

Posted on July 11, 2011 by Dissent

Sam Biddle reports: Booz Allen Hamilton is a massive American consulting firm that does a substantial amount of work for the Pentagon. This means they’ve got a lot of military business on their servers—which Anonymous hacked. Today they’ve leaked it. The leak, dubbed ‘Military Meltdown Monday,’ includes 90,000 logins of military personnel—including personnel from US…

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Indiana Attorney General reaches settlement with WellPoint in consumer data breach

Posted on July 5, 2011 by Dissent

Health insurer WellPoint Inc. will pay the State a $100,000 settlement over a data breach where the personal information of thousands of WellPoint customers was potentially accessible via the Internet. The settlement resolves a lawsuit that Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller’s office filed under a new data-breach notification law passed in 2009. “This case should…

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Cancer Center Blamed for Stolen Laptop; Delayed Notice Blamed for ID Theft

Posted on July 1, 2011 by Dissent

Okay, here’s a breach I never saw reported anywhere in my usual sources, until I read about it in a lawsuit. Via Courthouse News’ Joe Harris: A hospital and cancer center allowed a laptop computer stuffed with unencrypted, confidential information on its patients to be stolen, and did not notify patients of the data theft…

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