SEGA is the latest victim in a long and seemingly unending string of information breaches. SEGA Pass was taken offline last Thursday after the breach was discovered. The hackers collected the personal information of SEGA’s 1.3 million users. This includes email addresses, home addresses, dates of birth and their encrypted passwords. In an email to…
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The Texas Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services (DARS) has stated that the personal data of about 4,900 current and former state employees may have been exposed in a security breach. The information – names and Social Security numbers of current and former employees – was on an internet site accessible to the public but…
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Sony Corporation said Tuesday it will fully restore all PlayStation(R) Network services in the Americas, Europe/PAL territories and Asia, excluding Japan, Hong Kong, and South Korea, by the end of this week. Sony shut down its PlayStation Network in April after a security breach in its PlayStation Network and Qriocity services. At least 40 lawsuits…
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The firm has filed a class action lawsuit against Sony for the wrongful release of over 77 million Sony PlayStation owners. Between, April 17 and April 19, 2011, Sony’s PlayStation Network service user account information was compromised by an illegal and unauthorized intrusion into their network. Although the breach occurred between the dates of April…
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The comptroller spent $1.2 million just in mailing out letters to those affected, as well as $393,000 to set up a call center, and $290,000 to Gartner and Deloitte to examine the agency’s information security policies and procedures, according to a report in the Austin American-Statesman newspaper. The comptroller has also negotiated discounts for fraud-related…
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Just a few weeks after recalling Tylenol 8 Hour Extended Release Caplets 150 count bottles, Johnson & Johnson recently announced yet another product recall. This time round, the company recalled two lots of its epilepsy drug, Topamax. The recalled lots were shipped between Oct 19, 2010 and Dec 28, 2010 in the US and Puerto…
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Daimler AG’s Mercedes-Benz is undertaking a global recall of some of its older-model M-Class sport utility vehicles for issues related to cruise control that may lead to a crash, Daimler and U.S. federal safety regulators said on Tuesday. A wide majority of the vehicles being recalled are model year 2000-2002 M-Class SUVs, but there are…
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Lasko Products Inc. recalled 4.8 million of its box fans after seven reports of fires, including two in houses and one in a barn according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. The commission says that an electrical failure in the fan motor creates a fire hazard. No one has been injured yet but the…
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