Hacker steals data on about 1 in 4 Utahns

A computer hacker stole Social Security numbers for 280,000 Utahns and swiped names, addresses and birth dates for 500,000 others, state officials said today. Officials announced the dramatically higher estimates at a news conference, the Salt Lake Tribune reports. Utahns covered by Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)…

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New kind of malware steals, uploads docs to cloud

A new breed of malware has taken data theft one step further – it now grabs document and spreadsheet files and uploads them to a cloud-based file hosting service. Computer security firm Trend Micro said the new malware it recently encountered particularly sends the stolen files to Sendspace.com. “Sendspace was…

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Worm ‘steals Facebook passwords’

5 January 2012 Last updated at 12:55 ET More malware is worming its way onto social networks. A computer worm has stolen 45,000 login credentials from Facebook, security experts have warned. The data is believed to have been taken largely from Facebook accounts in the UK and France, according to…

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