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Student hackers and hackees

Posted on December 20, 2014 by Dissent

In Illinois, Katlyn Smith reports: Bartlett police are considering whether to level criminal charges against two Bartlett High School students who hacked into an Elgin Area District U-46 online portal and changed student attendance records, officials said Friday. The duo also hacked into at least one U-46 staff member’s email account, officials said. Read more…

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Quest Diagnostics notifies employees of breach after email attachment error (UPDATE)

Posted on December 19, 2014 by Dissent

Quest Diagnostics is notifying some employees that some of their personal information was inadvertently attached to an email sent outside the company. The email gaffe occurred on November 17, when a report containing employee information was attached to an email sent to two individuals with whom the firm has a business relationship. The error was reported…

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PA: Police investigate hacking threat against Pine Forge Academy

Posted on December 19, 2014 by Dissent

Ryan Hughes reports: Pennsylvania State Police are investigating a $1 million hacking threat against Pine Forge Academy in Berks County. The school received an anonymous email on Dec. 16 at the campus in Douglass Township. It threatened harm against its computer system and property if demands were not met, state police said Friday. “This person was…

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Staples Provides Update on Data Security Incident: 1.6M potentially affected

Posted on December 19, 2014 by Dissent

From their press release: FRAMINGHAM, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Staples, Inc. (Nasdaq: SPLS) today gave an update on the investigation into its previously announced data security incident involving a small percentage of its retail point-of-sale systems. Staples’ data security experts detected that criminals deployed malware to some point-of-sale systems at 115 of its more than 1,400 U.S. retail…

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Target Averts Most – But Not All – Claims Over Data Breach

Posted on December 19, 2014 by Dissent

Jack Bouboushian reports: A federal judge dismissed most consumer-negligence claims against Target for cybersecurity failures that resulted in a massive data breach last year. […] Magnuson dismissed the majority of those claims Thursday after finding that some consumers’ states do not permit the remedy they seek. While plaintiffs have shown that they suffered pecuniary damages…

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Presidian Hotels & Resorts releases information about data breach investigation

Posted on December 19, 2014 by Dissent

Visalia, California (December 19, 2014): Officials of Presidian Hotels & Resorts (Presidian), an independent hotel management company, announce the suspected breach of the point-of-sale system from the period July 26, 2014 – September 2, 2014 at food and beverage outlets such as the restaurant at the Visalia Marriott at the Convention Center Hotel, in Visalia,…

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