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Skagit County Health Department information leaked on Internet

Posted on November 26, 2011 by Dissent

Tahlia Honea reports: Information about people using services at the Skagit County Health Department and other county departments was inadvertently leaked onto the Internet recently. In mid-September a student who had been given an assignment to Google her own name, discovered that some of her private information was on the Internet and alerted the Health…

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MassBay employee database is compromised

Posted on November 23, 2011 by Dissent

Scott O’Connell reports: MassBay Community College notified employees last week that a security breach had been discovered in the school’s worker database system. The glitch, which affected nearly all employees in the system since 2002, allowed certain staff to view personal information like Social Security numbers and home addresses of anyone in the database. College…

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RockYou Proposed Settlement Would Leave Decision Standing

Posted on November 22, 2011 by Dissent

Remember the RockYou breach that was disclosed in December 2009?  It still ranks as one of the 10 biggest breaches of all time in terms of number of records involved – 32 million users’ login credentials were involved.  A lawsuit over the breach created a buzz last year when it did not get dismissed out of…

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Gary Vaynerchuk’s ‘Wine Library’ Hacked

Posted on November 22, 2011 by Dissent

Alexia Tsotsis reports: Earlier today patrons of Wine Library received an email informing them that the credit card information they had used to sign up to the WineLibrary.com site may have been compromised in a data breach. The site is the hub of NYT Best Selling Author Gary Vaynerchuk’s family business, made famous by his…

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YMCA says someone stole computer with members’ data

Posted on November 22, 2011 by Dissent

David Ibata reports: The YMCA of Metro Atlanta has put out an alert to some members that a computer containing their financial information has been stolen, Channel 2 Action News reports. The organization would not say how many people could be at risk. One former YMCA member, Felix Ledee of Coweta County, told Channel 2 he received…

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Community agency worker is accused of selling Holocaust survivors’ ID information

Posted on November 21, 2011 by Dissent

Jay Weaver reports: Identity theft may have reached a new low over the weekend when an employee of a Jewish community organization was arrested on charges of selling Holocaust survivors’ identity information for a sum of $1,000. Crystal Thorne, 23, who worked as a coordinator at the Jewish Community Services of South Florida office in…

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