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The number of companies, government departments and public bodies that have breached data protection rules is "horrifying", a new report says. Was the final book in the Harry Potter series really breached by hackers? Security experts today said they doubt it. The University of Missouri is the latest university to fall victim to cybercrime, after hackers breached a database and lifted more than 20,000 Social Security numbers (SSNs). Web 2.0 is cool, it may even be useful, but it is also causing a headache for those paid to worry about IT security About 146,000 users of USAJobs.gov had their personal information compromised in recent attacks on Monster.com, the US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) disclosed this week. A MoneyGram International server has been breached, allowing cybercrooks access to the personal information of nearly 80,000 people. When it comes to data security, enterprises have historically taken a "stop them at the gates" approach, similar to the purchase of a home security system. A California law firm has filed a class-action lawsuit against Certegy Check Services on behalf of the 8.5 million customers whose sensitive information was sold to direct marketers by a former employee of the check verification service. The convenience of doing business on the web has embedded itself into consumers' everyday routines to the point where the ability to quickly complete a multitude of tasks online has come to be expected. Customs is warning Australians - ordering goods from overseas via the Web - that an email from a Hotmail account, claiming to be from Customs and asking for the payments of fees, is a scam.
The CEO of PGP Corporation has criticised the Information Commissioner Richard Thomas for directing his attack at the chief executives of UK organisations. A hacker may have gained access to images of checks sent to the University of Notre Dame after the breach of one of the college’s servers earlier this month. Harry Potter, the boy wizard whose adventures have sold millions of books and box office tickets, is dead — at least according to malware writers. Two high street giants, Orange and Littlewoods, have been found in breach of the Data Protection Act following the negligent management of sensitive customer information. McAfee highlights top 10 threats for 2007. McAfee's Avert Labs researchers said they were accurate in predicting a 2007 rise in password-stealing websites and public awareness of identity and data theft, but were off-base in foretelling a jump in mobile malware and adware. Five additional states have filed lawsuits against TJX over the massive data breach that exposed some 45.7 million credit card numbers to hackers, the retailer reported on Thursday in a federal regulatory filing. Bank of America, Microsoft and Wal-Mart Stores are three of 14 organisations that will make up the newly formed PCI Security Standards Council (SSC) Board of Advisors. Hackers have compromised a server to access the personal information of some 46,000 students, faculty and staff at the University of California, San Francisco. TJX Companies revealed late Wednesday in a regulatory filing that hackers stole data from at least 45.7 million credit card holders when they illegally accessed the discount retailer's processing systems during 2005 and 2006.