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SOE hacked: 12,700 credit card numbers and 24.6 million accounts may have been compromised

Posted on May 2, 2011 by Dissent

Togikagi writes: As we previously reported, all Sony Online Entertainment services, games, forums and web sites went offline this morning as a result of the recent Playstation Network intrusion. SOE just issued an announcement, and it appears that the personal information of players may have been compromised. Here are the details straight from SOE: “Our…

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Sony game user accounts breached; 77 mil. may be affected

Posted on April 27, 2011 by Dissent

Looks like we have a new addition to the Top 10 list of all-time biggest breaches. Taro Koyano of Yomiuri Shimbun reports: The personal information of about 77 million users worldwide of Sony Corp.’s PlayStation and Qriocity online services may have been leaked, the company said Tuesday. Sony said its PlayStation Network services for online…

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Sealed Records Exposed In Major Court Gaffe

Posted on April 22, 2011 by Dissent

In a shocking failure to protect sensitive details about dozens of ongoing criminal investigations, federal officials somehow allowed confidential information about sealed cases to be publicly accessible via the court system’s online lookup service, The Smoking Gun has learned. Over the past nine months, details of 40 separate sealed court applications filed by federal prosecutors…

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Verizon-USSS 2011 data breach investigations report released – what do they know that we don’t?

Posted on April 19, 2011 by Dissent

The annual report based on breaches investigated by Verizon and the U.S. Secret Service is out.  On first reading of the report and the available media coverage, the big headline seems to be that while the number of records or data lost is down significantly, the number of breaches is significantly up – and more…

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DOJ takes steps to take down Coreflood botnet that infected 2.3 million computers

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Dissent

Today the Department of Justice and FBI announced the filing of a civil complaint, the execution of criminal seizure warrants, and the issuance of a temporary restraining order as part of the most complete and comprehensive enforcement action ever taken by U.S authorities to disable an international botnet. The botnet is a network of hundreds…

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Malaysian National Admits to Hacking into the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, FedComp, and Others

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Dissent

Lin Mun Poo, 32, a resident and citizen of Malaysia, pleaded guilty this morning in federal court in Brooklyn to possessing stolen credit and debit card numbers.  Poo also admitted that he compromised a computer server belonging to the Federal Reserve Bank, and that he installed a malicious code onto that server. According to the…

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