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My realtor’s email was hacked and I’m out $2M: exec’s suit

Posted on April 18, 2016 by Dissent

This is like the third case I can recall like this.  Julia Marsh reports: A former Lehman Brothers executive unwittingly wired a $2 million deposit for a $20 million Manhattan apartment to cyber criminals — and now he’s blaming his real estate attorney and her vulnerable AOL email address for the breach. Robert Millard, who…

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Ca: UPEI privacy breach leaks personal data of 700 people

Posted on April 18, 2016 by Dissent

Krystalle Ramlakhan reports: About 700 people who sought summer accommodations through the University of Prince Edward Island website had their personal information leaked in a privacy breach last month. Personal information from submissions dating back to October 2014 were posted to a upei.ca web page, and could be found through a general web search. Read more…

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Schools put on high alert for JBoss ransomware exploit

Posted on April 18, 2016 by Dissent

Katherine Noyes reports: More than 2,000 machines at schools and other organizations have been infected with a backdoor in unpatched versions of JBoss that could be used at any moment to install ransomware such as Samsam. That’s according to Cisco’s Talos threat-intelligence organization, which on Friday announced that roughly 3.2 million machines worldwide are at risk. Many of those…

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RI: ABC6 Personnel Record Breach Leads to State Police Investigation, 4 Fired and 3 Suspended

Posted on April 16, 2016 by Dissent

GoLocalProv reports: A breach of highly confidential personnel records at ABC6 has lead to an investigation by the Rhode Island State Police, the firing for four members of the news organization and three suspensions. Included in the firings is Alexandra Cowley, the anchor for the evening news and an emerging star in the Providence television…

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IRS Employees Arrested for Fraudulent Tax Returns

Posted on April 16, 2016 by Dissent

Two long-time IRS employees were arrested yesterday at the IRS facility in Fresno as they came to work. On April 14, 2015, a 38-count indictment was brought against Della Ornelas, 48, and Randall Ruff, 52, both of Fresno, charging them with aiding others in the preparation of false tax returns, and making their own fraudulent tax…

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Atique Orthodontics, P.A Notifies Patients of Security Incident

Posted on April 15, 2016 by Dissent

SAN ANTONIO, April 15, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Atique Orthodontics, P.A. (AOPA) is notifying certain patients about a security incident involving unauthorized access to a computer in its office.  Between February 29th, 2016 and March 30th, 2016, an unauthorized outside party accessed an AOPA office computer that could have led to a server that included patient names, dates of births,…

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