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Major scare in Guadalajara after hacking claim

Posted on October 26, 2011 by Dissent

Tom Degun reports on a rumor published yesterday involving an alleged hack of a journalists’ credentials database for the Pan American Games: The Guadalajara 2011 Organising Committee have denied claims that their database containing the confidential information of over 1,000 journalists attending the Pan American Games here have been illegally hacked. The Games had just…

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Two years later, Texas parent who reported a breach gets prosecutors off his back and his laptop returned

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Dissent

A Texas parent who reported a school district security breach involving sensitive student records spent the next two years facing federal charges and trying to get his laptop back Back in August 2009,  DataBreaches.net reported that a parent had his work and personal computers seized by the FBI after he reported a security breach to his…

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Did password re-use contribute to fraudulent use of some Nordstrom customers’ online accounts? (updated)

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Dissent

Nordstrom, the  Seattle-based department store chain, recently notified 17 customers that their online accounts had been accessed, and in some cases, misused. The company says that it is not to blame, however,  for how the cybercriminals obtained the customers’ login email addresses and passwords. By letter dated September 3, Kim Dawson, Privacy Director for Nordstrom,…

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CA: Current and Former State Employees Advised of Breach of Personal Information

Posted on June 24, 2011 by Dissent

From the California Department of Public Health press release of June 24, 2011: Date: 6/24/2011 Number: 11-028 Contact: Al Lundeen (916) 440-7259 SACRAMENTO A California Department of Public Health (CDPH) investigation has found that personal and workers’ compensation information of approximately 9,000 current and former state employees was improperly copied to a private hard-drive and…

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Lawmakers Question Sony, Epsilon on Data Breaches

Posted on June 2, 2011 by Dissent

Grant Gross reports: Recent data breaches at Sony’s PlayStation Network and at e-mail service provider Epsilon will lead to legislation focused on improving cybersecurity at U.S. companies, the chairwoman of a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee said Thursday. Representative Mary Bono Mack, a California Republican, said she will soon introduce legislation focused on ensuring that…

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Ca: Mountie docked pay for snooping in database [repost]

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Dissent

[repost] Gary Dimmock reports: A disgraced Mountie has been docked eight days pay after an internal investigation revealed the constable had made numerous unauthorized checks on the force’s national crime data bank and shared some of the information with his wife, an associate and former business partner of a Hells Angel. Const. Todd Glasman became…

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