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Home Depot Employees Arrested for Insider Breach
WSB-TV reports that three Home Depot human resources employees — Claudette Grimes, Lakisha Grimes and Paulette Shorter — have been arrested for allegedly accessing employees’ confidential information and using it…
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EasyDraft Data Breach Exposes Bright Horizons Customers’ Financial Data
EasyDraft, which processes payments for Bright Horizons Family Solutions, recently began notifying an undisclosed number of current and former Bright Horizons customers that their names, bank routing numbers and bank…
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Hack Wickr, Win $100,000
Secure messaging app provider Wickr recently announced a new bug bounty program under which it will pay as much as $100,000 to any hacker who uncovers and responsibly discloses a…
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Hacker Imprisoned for Trying to Change MCAT Scores
Bosung Shim, 24, of Rockville, Md., was recently sentenced to three months in prison, followed by seven months in community confinement and three years of supervised release, for hacking into…
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Crown Castle Acknowledges Data Breach
Crown Castle recently began notifying an undisclosed number of its U.S. employees that their payroll information may have been accessed by hackers. On October 31, 2013, the company determined that…
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Yusen Logistics Acknowledges Security Breach
Shipping and logistics company Yusen Logistics (Americas) Inc. (YLA) recently began notifying an undisclosed number of current and former employees that their personal information may have been exposed when a…
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PureVPN Hacked
Customers of VPN provider PureVPN recently began receiving e-mails stating that the company was shutting down due to legal issues — but PureVPN quickly announced that the e-mails were fake,…
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Citigroup Acknowledges Massive Data Breach
American Banker reports that Citigroup recently admitted having failed to safeguard the personal data (including birthdates and Social Security numbers) of approximately 146,000 customers who filed for bankruptcy between 2007…
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Avira Browser Security Blocks Chrome Browser
Avira recently acknowledged that Avira Browser Security doesn’t allow Web sites to be displayed in the Chrome browser once it’s updated to verison 28 (h/t The H Security). Affected products…
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Suffolk University Admits Security Breach
Boston’s Suffolk University recently began notifying an undisclosed number of people who used their credit cards to purchase tickets to Suffolk University events that their personal information may have been…
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