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Banks seek to block Target’s deal with MasterCard over data breach

Posted on April 23, 2015 by Dissent

Reuters reports: A group of small banks and credit unions suing Target Corp over its massive data breach in 2013 are moving to block the retailer’s proposed $19 million settlement with MasterCard Inc, calling it a “sweetheart deal” aimed at undercutting their own claims for losses. Lawyers for plaintiffs in the lawsuit, which seeks class-action…

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Tiger impersonator’s ex ‘stole medical records to fake pregnancy’

Posted on April 23, 2015 by Dissent

Rebecca Rosenberg reports: First, Minochy Delanois, 29, pulled her Tiger Woods-impersonator boyfriend through the rough — telling cops he’d harassed her and had even threatened to send nude pics of her to her bosses at NYU Langone Medical Center after she dumped him. But now, a little more than a year later, the charges against…

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Unhappy Third Birthday to My Experian Complaint?

Posted on April 23, 2015 by Dissent

Three years ago today, I filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission about  Experian’s data breaches. Back then, I knew about 60 breaches of their credit reporting database due to client login credentials being misused. There were also other breaches of their database involving people being able to authenticate as others to obtain  credit reports,…

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NC: Wake County Public Schools take servers offline after DDoS attack

Posted on April 22, 2015 by Dissent

WRAL reports: Officials with the Wake County Public School System said Wednesday that they took dozens of school websites offline after a server was hit by hackers. The attack happened several weeks ago on a server that hosts 54 of the 178 websites operated by the school system. WCPSS spokeswoman Lisa Luten said the hack…

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Hyatt Gold Passport notifies a small number of loyalty program members of possible breach (update2)

Posted on April 22, 2015 by Dissent

Hyatt is sending some customers enrolled in their loyalty points program, Gold Passport, notification of a possible breach of their information. As with some other loyalty card breach reports we’ve seen recently, Hyatt’s notification indicates that there is no evidence that their system was breached and that the miscreants may have obtained customers’ login credentials from other sources…

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Intuit lawsuit alleges firm facilitated fraud by lax security

Posted on April 22, 2015 by Dissent

Marisa Kendall reports: In a suit filed Monday against Intuit Inc., plaintiffs lawyers claim lax security protections in the company’s TurboTax software are to blame for a recent spike in fraudulent tax returns. Intuit didn’t take adequate steps to stop criminals from using TurboTax to steal customers’ personal information, file false returns on their behalf…

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