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Walmart jewelry partner exposed 1.3 million customer details

Posted on March 14, 2018 by Dissent

Bob Diachenko writes: On February 6th, 2018 researchers at Kromtech security came across another publicly accessible Amazon s3 bucket.  This one contained a MSSQL database backup, which was found to hold the personal information, including names, addresses, zip codes, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, ip addresses, and, most shockingly, plain text passwords, for shopping accounts of over…

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MO: Olathe restaurant owner accused of identity theft

Posted on March 14, 2018 by Dissent

KSHB in Kansas City reports: An Olathe barbecue restaurant owner is facing accusations of credit card fraud. Mathew Sander is facing 19 different charges in three separate cases. Sander owns Smokin’ Joe’s BBQ. Read more on KSHB.

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WA: Port of Longview hit with major cyberattack

Posted on March 13, 2018 by Dissent

This sounds serious. Zack Hale reports: The Port of Longview was recently victimized by a cyber attack that may have affected hundreds of past and current employees and dozens of vendors. The FBI notified the port of the attack on Feb. 1, according to an internal memo obtained Monday by The Daily News. However, the…

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A Primer on the SHIELD Act: New York’s Move to Adopt More Stringent Data Security Requirements, Part II

Posted on March 13, 2018 by Dissent

Courtney M. Bowman of Proskauer Rose writes: What would companies need to do to comply with the law? The Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security (SHIELD) Act imposes requirements in two areas: cybersecurity and data breach notification. The cybersecurity provisions of the proposed SHIELD Act would require companies to adopt “reasonable safe-guards to protect the security,…

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UPDATE: FLVS leak affected 50,000 Leon County employees and students

Posted on March 13, 2018 by Dissent

WGCU has the update here. Note that they will be sending out individual notifications. It’s not clear whether FLVS is sending out individual notifications to any of the non-Leon County students or parents whose data was on their server. And an even more complete update here.  Leon County Schools superintendent blasts FLVS.

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Centennial not pressing charges against student hackers

Posted on March 12, 2018 by Dissent

Teresa Carson reports: The Centennial School District has not pressed charges against two unnamed students who hacked into the districts computers in January and got access to the personal information of “a couple of hundred” students and former students. Gresham Police officer Ben Costigan said the district declined to press charges and handled the matter…

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