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MI: Tax preparer leaves clients’ tax records behind in foreclosed home, but so did Treasury agents sent in to clean it out

Posted on November 13, 2013 by Dissent

Okay, this is bad. Ken Kolker reports: Federal agents raided a tax preparer’s former home and seized abandoned documents from decades of returns, including names, addresses and Social Security numbers — but they didn’t get it all, Target 8 discovered on Wednesday. Target 8 found thousands of pages of tax documents in a burn barrel…

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NY: Buffet employee pleads guilty to identity theft

Posted on November 13, 2013 by Dissent

While the big cybercriminal gangs make headlines, it’s often the little local schemes that will cause you misery. WNYT reports: An employee of the Golden Town Buffet in Bethlehem has pleaded guilty to stealing the credit card information of some of his customers. Heng Li, 27, entered the plea in Albany County Court on Wednesday…

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Hack of MacRumors forums exposes password data for 860,000 users

Posted on November 13, 2013 by Dissent

Dan Goodin reports: MacRumors user forums have been breached by hackers who may have acquired cryptographically protected passwords belonging to all 860,000 users, one of the top editors of the news website said Tuesday evening. Read more on Ars Technica and, to be on the safe side, change your password for the forum and for any other…

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Adobe customer files potential class action lawsuit after breach

Posted on November 12, 2013 by Dissent

From the it-was-inevitable-department: A customer in California has filed a potential class action lawsuit against Adobe Systems in federal court for the Northern District of California.  It appears to be the first one filed, although I’m pretty sure it won’t be the last. In any event, it’s worth a blog post at least. I know,…

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Transcript of Oral Argument in FTC v. Wyndham

Posted on November 11, 2013 by Dissent

Cross-posted from the mother ship, PogoWasRight.org: I splurged and purchased a copy of the transcript of Thursday’s oral argument in FTC v. Wyndham . You can download it here (PDF, 561kB, 186 pp.). Consider it an early holiday gift from PogoWasRight.org to you. I look forward to reading everyone’s reactions after we’ve all had time to read it. I…

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NY: Sachem School District has student data leak (update1)

Posted on November 10, 2013 by Dissent

Michael Sorrentino reports: Leaked student records are allegedly now available on a website that may be the source of Sachem Central School District’s Friday announcement that internal district information has been posted onto a local message board. The website is the one referred to Patch by resident Stephanie Volpe, who posted screenshots of it Friday morning after…

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