The United States Postal Service on Monday warned workers that their data had been compromised, along with people who had contacted the Customer Care Center between January and August this year. 
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Old-time phishing scams are working just fine, Google finds
A new Google study has found that the true masterpieces of phishing are successful 45% of the time. It’s just another example of how phishers may be old dogs, but they can sure learn new tricks. 
Operation Onymous: 17-nation bust takes out over 400 “hidden services”
It turns out that last week’s bust of Silk Road 2.0’s kingpin was just a hint at what was coming: namely, a multinational crackdown on dark-market sites hidden away on the Tor network. 
My password is…no, sorry, it’s completely slipped my mind – 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Here’s the latest episode of our weekly “60 Second Security” video. It’ll only take a minute…
53 million email addresses stolen in Home Depot breach
In addition to the 56 million credit cards exposed in the recent breach at Home Depot, investigators have now revealed that more than 53 million email addresses were stolen too.
Department of Homeland Security employee data breached in “state-sponsored attack”
Personal data may well have been snatched out of the US government’s top employee background-checking firm in what officials are calling a major security breach. 
SSCC 172 – Ransomware’s not dead! [PODCAST]
Here’s the latest episode of our weekly security podcast. News you can use!
College kids still using Snapchat despite ‘The Snappening’, says report
A study found that 75% of undergraduates said they planned to keep on using Snapchat in the same way as before, despite photos being snatched from a non-secure third-party service.
“Dear ATM, kindly dispense 30 banknotes as a test” – 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Here’s this week’s 60 Second Security video, for your viewing pleasure. From scammers to spammers in just one minute…
CurrentC gets user email addresses pickpocketed
CurrentC is a competitor to Apple Pay and Google Wallet. Should we worry about it getting its fingers into our bank accounts, given the recent data breach?