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Sony Networks Taken Down by DDoS Attack
Sony recently acknowledged that its PlayStation Network and Sony Entertainment Network had been taken offline due to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, stating that the networks had been…
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Code Spaces Destroyed by Cyber Attack
The code hosting service Code Spaces was recently forced to shut down permanently after suffering a multi-stage attack on its servers. On June 17, 2014, Code Spaces was hit by…
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Lowe’s Acknowledges Third Party Data Breach
Lowe’s recently began notifying an undisclosed number of current and former employees that their personal information may have been disclosed when a third-party vendor mistakenly backed up Lowe’s employee data…
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79 Percent of IT Administrators Want to Quit Due to Stress
According to the results of GFI Software‘s third annual IT Admin Stress Survey, conducted by Opinion Matters, fully 79 percent of IT staff are actively considering leaving their jobs due…
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Florida Man Gets Five Years in Prison for Identity Theft
Andrew Ware, 27, of Lauderhill, Fla., was recently sentenced to 70 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for his involvement in a stolen identity…
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Bitcoin Exchange Poloniex Hacked
Poloniex, a cryptocurrency exchange for Bitcoin and dozens of other cryptocurrencies, recently announced that about 12.3 percent of its Bitcoin holdings were stolen by a hacker (h/t E Hacking News).…
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Lost USB Drive Exposes Hong Kong Hospital Patients’ Data
Computerworld Hong Kong reports that a pharmacy staff member at Hong Kong’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) lost a USB drive containing 92 patients’ personal data on February 18, 2014, but…
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Bank of the West Acknowledges Data Breach
Bank of the West recently began notifying an undisclosed number of former job applicants that the information they had provided in an online job application may have been accessed by…
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Barclays Bank Breach Exposes 27,000 Customers’ Personal Data
The Mail on Sunday reports that an anonymous whistleblower says up to 27,000 confidential customer files have been stolen from Barclays Bank and sold to rogue traders (h/t Infosecurity). “This…
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Nielsen Company Acknowledges Data Breach
The Nielsen Company recently began notifying an undisclosed number of employees that their personal information may have been exposed when an employee mistakenly shared a file containing the data by…
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