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Backpage.com wins injunction vs Chicago sheriff over adult ads

November 30, 2015December 3, 2015 admin card-companies, circuit-judge, first-amendment, free-speech, greek, preventing-even, richard-posner, said-promotes, the-hackers

A federal appeals court on Monday ordered an injunction blocking the Cook County, Illinois, sheriff from pursuing any effort to stop credit card companies from handling transactions for Backpage.com, a classified ad website that the sheriff said promotes sex trafficking. The 7th U.S.

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Mandarin Oriental says credit card systems compromised in cyberattack

March 5, 2015 publisher against-sellers, antonio, approved-rules, better-buying, card-companies, isolated-number, its-website, san, security, victim

Hotel operator Mandarin Oriental International Ltd said on Thursday that it was the victim of a cyberattack and that it found malicious software on credit card systems at “an isolated number” of hotels in the United States and Europe. The company said in a statement on its website that it was working with credit card companies, law enforcement and forensic experts as it investigates the matter.