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(follow-up) OH: Silence not broken nearly a year after security breach

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Dissent

The student paper at Ohio State University has continued to try to get answers to their questions about a breach at OSU last year that affected 760,000.  You can read Ally Marotti’s recent update on The Lantern. The coverage paints an unflattering picture of the university in terms of transparency following the breach. Could the…

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TX: Two George’s at Center of Credit Card Fraud Investigation

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Dissent

Keaton Fox reports: Tonight there are more questions about what was going on at Two Georges Restaurant, now the center of a credit card abuse case. Police say several people filed reports that their credit card was charged hundreds of dollars, months, even years after they had visited the restaurant. Now the businesses has been…

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Feds: Wi-Fi hacking burglars targeted dozens of Seattle-area businesses (updated)

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Dissent

Levi Pulkkinen reports: A federal grand jury has indicted three Seattle men accused of hacking the wireless networks of more than a dozen businesses to steal money and employees’ personal information. Also claiming the trio was behind 41 burglaries, federal prosecutors contend Joshuah A. Witt, Brad E. Lowe and John E. Griffin used the fruits…

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[Corrected] MO: Former SEMO Employee Found with Data Files of Personal Information of Students

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Dissent

Correction: Oops – disregard this entry. This was an old breach. No idea why it showed up in my news reader today. Wes Wallace reports: Hundreds of students received an identity theft warning following a security breach at Southeast Missouri State University. According to the school, a grand jury in Georgia indicted a former worker…

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Guilty plea in case involving identity info; Electronic Data Systems employee involved

Posted on September 19, 2011 by Dissent

An insider breach at the former Electronic Data Systems flew pretty much flew under the media radar, it seems. A recent press release notes: Alchico Grant, a resident of Montgomery, Ala., pleaded guilty to his role in two tax fraud and identity theft conspiracies, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today….

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Intel officials’ emails posted after hack of cybersecurity group

Posted on September 18, 2011 by Dissent

Michael Isikoff reports: The names and email addresses of hundreds of U.S. intelligence officials — including some senior officials in the Obama Administration — have been posted on an anti-secrecy website after computer hackers allegedly swiped them from the internal membership list of a prestigious national security organization. The apparent cyberattack on the Intelligence and…

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