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Hannaford and Sweetbay supermarkets announce compromise of 4.2 million credit and debit cards

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2008-03-18 00:07:06 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Northeast that carry Hannaford products Number Affected 4,200,000 Types of Data Credit card and debit card information Breach Description New England grocery chain Hannaford Brothers says a security breach has exposed 4.2 million customer credit- and debit-card numbers to scammers, with 1,800 fraud cases already reported." Anyone who used...
 
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5,000 Health Net employees affected by stolen laptop

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2008-01-05 19:04:59 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Northeast Types of Data Names and Social Security numbers Breach Description A laptop computer containing personal information belonging to "about" 5,000 Health Net employees hired before January 1st, 2005 and an undisclosed number of health-care providers was stolen from a Health Net vendor more than a month ago Reference URL The Hartford...
 
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Report from InfoSec World

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2008-03-11 08:23:19 by HASH0x8b066f4 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...Northeast. Maybe some one will pick up on that Also, in case any of you want to know, the only booth babes I saw at this show were from Fortify Software inviting people into their party after the exhibit hall closed. Shame on you Fortify
 
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Report from InfoSec World

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2008-03-11 09:23:03 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
...Northeast. Maybe some one will pick up on that Also, in case any of you want to know, the only booth babes I saw at this show were from Fortify Software inviting people into their party after the exhibit hall closed. Shame on you Fortify
 
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Is PCI compliance creating a false sense of security?

2008-03-28 09:44:50 by Burton Group in Security and Risk Management Strategies Blog
 
...Northeast U.S. (and the store I shop at and pay using my debit card) had a breach that exposed up to 4.2 million credit and debit cardholders to potential fraud The result of this breach so far has been about 1,800 instances of fraud as reported by company officials, all company information has been removed from their website (Im assuming...
 
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Is PCI compliance creating a false sense of security?

2008-03-28 09:44:50 by Burton Group in Security and Risk Management Strategies Blog
 
...Northeast U.S. (and the store I shop at and pay using my debit card) had a breach that exposed up to 4.2 million credit and debit cardholders to potential fraud The result of this breach so far has been about 1,800 instances of fraud as reported by company officials, all company information has been removed from their website (I???m assuming...
 
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Hundreds of WiseBuys customers are victims of credit card fraud

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2008-04-26 21:01:56 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Northeast including stores in Watertown and Massena, reported the theft of up to 4.2 million credit and debit card numbers from 300 of its stores in March Evan] I think Watertown, NY is ~60 miles from Canton, and Massena is ~30 miles away It is unknown if there is any similarity between the Hannaford thefts and the WiseBuys thefts Evan] I...
 
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Security Briefing: May 30th

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2008-05-30 14:29:34 by Myrcurial in Liquidmatrix Security Digest
...Northeast Blackout? Umm, No | Threat Level from Wired.com And 27/b6 weighs in on the issue with maybe a little more journalistic integrity Tags: News , Daily Links , Security Blog , Information Security , Security News
 
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Did Hackers Cause the 2003 Northeast Blackout? Umm, No

2008-05-30 18:00:00 by Threat Level in Wired Security
 
The latest cyberterrorism fairy tale circulating in Washington posits that Chinese government hackers were responsible for the worst power failure in U.S. history. Next week: How Chinese hackers caused Hurricane Katrina, the mortgage crisis and climate change
 
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Did the Chinese PLA Attack the U.S. Power Grid?

2008-06-02 06:37:31 by schneier in Schneier on Security