Target: 40M card accounts may be breached

   Target says that about 40 million credit and debit card accounts may have been affected by a data breach that occurred just as the holiday shopping season shifted into high gear. The chain said that accounts of customers who made purchases using their cards at its U.S. stores between…

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Washington Post servers breached by hackers

  According to a story posted on the newspaper’s website, hackers targeted Washington Post servers and accessed employee logins and passwords. Workers are being asked to change their passwords. The Post said the extent of the breach is not yet clear, though it does not look like subscriber data, including credit card information, was stolen. It also…

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Twitter breached, 50,000 accounts posted to Internet

Twitter is investigating an apparent data breach that resulted in more than 50,000 user names and passwords being posted to the Internet. The data was posted across five pages (one, two, three, four, five) on Pastebin, a favorite site for hackers to post their ill-gotten gains. View full post on Security…

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