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Zappos settles charges with nine states over data breach

Posted on January 7, 2015 by Dissent

There’s been a settlement of charges stemming from a breach disclosed in 2012 that affected 24 million consumers. The settlement requires the online shoe store to guard data, pay $106,000 to NC and 8 states Raleigh: Nevada-based online retailer Zappos.com will take steps to better protect consumers’ personal information, Attorney General Roy Cooper announced Wednesday….

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U. of Hawaii and Cornell University hacked by @MarxistAttorney

Posted on January 7, 2015 by Dissent

Add the University of Hawaii  and Cornell University to the universities that have been hacked by @MarxistAttorney. The U. of Hawaii data dump, which DataBreaches.net is not linking to, does not contain student or employee personal information, but in addition to acquiring the root username/password, “Attorney” also got the mac addresses, service tags, usernames and more…

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Morgan Stanley Fires Employee Accused of Stealing Client Data

Posted on January 5, 2015 by Dissent

Michael J. Moore reports: Morgan Stanley (MS) fired an employee it said stole data, including account numbers, for as many as 350,000 wealth-management clients and posted some of the information online. The bank alerted law enforcement and found no evidence that clients lost any money, New York-based Morgan Stanley said today in a statement. The firm…

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Feds still unraveling extent of tax fraud in Miami Dade College student accounts

Posted on January 4, 2015 by Dissent

Jay Weaver reports: A tipster walked into the FBI’s South Florida office a few years ago to complain that young cyber criminals in the North Miami area were using something called a “key” in street lingo to steal people’s identities. That key, FBI agents would soon figure out, was really a combination of names, birth…

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Felony charges for Georgia Tech student who hacked U. Georgia network

Posted on December 31, 2014 by Dissent

Joe Johnson reports: A Clarke County grand jury recently indicted a Georgia Tech student for allegedly hacking into the University of Georgia’s computer network to post a message prior to the annual rivalry football game between the Bulldogs and Yellow Jackets. Ryan Gregory Pickren, 21, was charged with felony computer trespass for making the posting…

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Banks: Card Breach at Some Chick-fil-A’s

Posted on December 30, 2014 by Dissent

Brian Krebs reports: Sources at several U.S. financial institutions say they have traced a pattern of credit card fraud back to accounts that all were used at different Chick-fil-A fast food restaurants around the country. Chick-fil-A told KrebsOnSecurity that it has received similar reports and is working with IT security firms and law enforcement in an ongoing…

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