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Company says YouPorn chat service has been taken offline after user data was compromised
6 hours 1 min agoRaphael Satter of Associated Press reports: Users of a chat service linked to the heavily-trafficked YouPorn website have...
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University of Florida notifies 719 individuals about privacy breach
13 hours 7 min agoFrom the University of Florida today: University of Florida officials are notifying 719 individuals who were owed a check or...
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Australia divided over data breach laws
Wed, 02/22/2012 - 07:56Michael Lee reports: Australian organisations remain divided over the issue of data breach notification laws, leaving the...
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TN: Personal Information Found Dumped Behind Mo’ Money Taxes
Tue, 02/21/2012 - 23:30Memphis police are investigating thousands of documents containing personal information in dumpsters at a Whitehaven area...
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Mortal Online hacked, Star Vault encourages users to verify accounts
Tue, 02/21/2012 - 11:42Jef Reahard reports: If you’ve got an active Mortal Onlne account, you may want to think seriously about changing your...
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UK: Computer whizz faces jail for writing programme to steal personal details of 8 MILLION people, including 400 PayPal accounts
Tue, 02/21/2012 - 11:00Chris Parsons reports: A computer expert who ‘plotted a £350,000 fraud’ is facing jail today after admitting he...
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Ie: Go4Less acknowledges online data breach
Sun, 02/19/2012 - 06:33A travel agency has acknowledged an online data breach which meant that a number of customers’ personal data – including...
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Central Connecticut State University server infected with Z-Bot; over 18,000 notified of incident
Fri, 02/17/2012 - 09:58A statement linked from CCSU’s home page, dated today: Central Connecticut State University officials have announced...
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DHI Mortgage notifies loan applicants of server breach (Update 3)
Thu, 02/16/2012 - 11:24A reader sends along an e-mail he received DHI Mortgage in Texas: We have reason to believe that the integrity of your...
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NC: Online security breach hits Charlotte college campus, officials warn
Thu, 02/16/2012 - 10:37Chris Dyches reports: School officials say an online security breach has hit a Charlotte college campus and they are still...
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WI: Dozens of Weather Shield employees victims of identity fraud
Thu, 02/16/2012 - 10:29Megan Wiebold reports: Dozens of employees of a Rusk County business say they’ve been victims of identity theft. The...
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Cyber thieves piggyback off Stratfor breach
Thu, 02/16/2012 - 03:55Aliyah Sternstein reports: Hackers posing as officials from the geopolitical analysis publisher Stratfor are emailing...
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UK: Cheshire East Council fined £80,000 after e-mail, sent insecurely, disseminated to unintended recipients
Wed, 02/15/2012 - 22:37Cheshire East Council has been ordered to pay a monetary penalty of £80,000 for failing to take appropriate measures to...
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Cybersecurity Bill in U.S. Senate Seeks Industry Rules to Thwart Hackers (update 1)
Wed, 02/15/2012 - 09:57Chris Stromm reports: Companies running computer networks essential to U.S. economic and national security would be required...
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NY: Another response to a FOI request discloses Social Security numbers
Wed, 02/15/2012 - 05:09From LoHud.com, a report involving the city of Rye, New York: City officials are notifying employees that some workers’...
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UT: Credit card information hacked at Solitude
Wed, 02/15/2012 - 00:12Meredith Forrest Kulwicki reports: Someone hacked into the credit card system at Solitude Mountain Resort last week, the...
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Firms prosecuted over welfare data
Tue, 02/14/2012 - 00:11Elaine Edwards reports: Three large insurance companies have pleaded guilty to illegally using social welfare information on...
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Why Data Security Regulation is Bad
Mon, 02/13/2012 - 23:29Danny Lieberman comments: The first government knee-jerk reaction in the face of a data breach is to create more government...
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Update: Texas pays for data breach
Mon, 02/13/2012 - 23:22Kelley Shannon provides an update on one of the biggest breaches in 2011: The taxpayer tab for individual credit monitoring...
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TicketWeb security breached by fake Adobe scammers
Mon, 02/13/2012 - 23:19Carrie-Ann Skinner reports: TicketWeb has suffered a security breach which saw emails containing malicious links purporting...
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