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Cyber thieves piggyback off Stratfor breach

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Dissent

Aliyah Sternstein reports: Hackers posing as officials from the geopolitical analysis publisher Stratfor are emailing infected links to government subscribers whose email addresses were stolen during an earlier raid on the company’s computers, Microsoft researchers say.  Read more on NextGov.

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NY: Another response to a FOI request discloses Social Security numbers

Posted on February 14, 2012 by Dissent

From LoHud.com, a report involving the city of Rye, New York: City officials are notifying employees that some workers’ Social Security numbers were mistakenly disclosed in response to a Freedom of Information Law request and that the city was seeking legal assurance that the information would not be passed on. City Manager Scott Pickup did…

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UT: Credit card information hacked at Solitude

Posted on February 14, 2012 by Dissent

Meredith Forrest Kulwicki reports: Someone hacked into the credit card system at Solitude Mountain Resort last week, the resort confirmed. The hackers did steal credit card information from some customers, but the resort says the breach was short-lived and only affected a few people. Read more on Fox13

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Update: Texas pays for data breach

Posted on February 13, 2012 by Dissent

Kelley Shannon provides an update on one of the biggest breaches in 2011: The taxpayer tab for individual credit monitoring after a data breach in Comptroller Susan Combs’ office has topped $600,000, and Combs’ campaign is paying extra to resolve routine credit glitches in some cases. Though investigations continue into the data exposure revealed in…

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Hacker Says He Compromised Intel, Gained Private Info

Posted on February 11, 2012 by Dissent

Kevin Parrish reports: A hacker using the pseudonyms “Weedgrower” and “X-pOSed” is claiming that he compromised Intel and obtained sensitive data by using a flaw in the subscriber segment of Intel’s web site. With access to the Intel.com database, the hacker claims he can retrieve sensitive information like credit card numbers, social security numbers, email…

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C.D. Peacock sues IT firm over network breach

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Dissent

Wailin Wong reports: Chicago jeweler C.D. Peacock has sued a suburban information-technology consulting firm, alleging that the company’s negligence allowed hackers to access confidential customer financial data. The lawsuit was filed Wednesday in Cook County Circuit Court. According to C.D. Peacock’s complaint, it hired Oak Brook-based BridgePoint Technologies for IT-related services in August 2009. In…

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