Archive for the ‘Data Breaches’ Category
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
Bad news if you're a BlueCross BlueShield member in the Volunteer state. Fifty-seven hard drives that contained personal information on around 500,000 BCBS members has been stolen according to the insurance company. The theft happened on October 2nd when an unidentified thief stole the drives from a closet in ...
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Friday, November 20th, 2009
Data breaches have become a common occurrence. We post about them nearly weekly here at LifeLockPromotionCode.net. Now a recent study by Javelin Research, a financial services research firm, shows an alarming coorelation between those involved in massive data losses and ID theft victims.
To start, nearly 1 in 9 people ...
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Friday, October 16th, 2009
Unless the name following your Doctor title is House, Who, Doom, Pepper or Zhivago, there might be a chance your confidential records were one of 800,000 records contained on a laptop that was recently stolen.
The laptop, which was owned by a Blue Cross and Blue Shield employee in Chicago, ...
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Friday, October 9th, 2009
One hundred Egyptians and Americans were indicted Wednesday in what federal agents are calling one of the largest cybercrime cases ever. Fifty-three of those charged are living in the United States while the remaining hail from Egypt. In a speech on Wednesday, FBI Director Robert Mueller said that fifty ...
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Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
The world's most popular email service had a massive security breach last week. Over 10,000 accounts from the Hotmail, MSN and Live email systems -- all run by Microsoft -- were posted publicly online, including passwords.
If you use an email ending in @hotmail.com, @msn.com or @live.com please go and ...
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Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
The latest scam to take the nation by storm has phony debt collectors contacting consumers and trying to collect past debt. The problem is that the consumer has already paid off the debt many years ago. This new breed of scammers has detailed access to people, including past debts ...
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Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
One hundred and thirty million. The number itself just boggles the mind. Try to think of 130,000,000 of anything and you'll get a headache. Now think of that number in regards to debit card information. That's right, 130 million account records -- that's the number that Albert Gonzalez stole... this ...
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Friday, June 26th, 2009
Many times when companies have a "security breach" -- meaning a bunch of their client's confidential information lost or stolen -- it's due to a company laptop disappearing during a conference or being stolen from an office place. Previous examples of this happening would be the California Department of Health ...
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Friday, June 5th, 2009
Part of protecting yourself from identity theft online is creating strong passwords for your multiple online accounts. Many times passwords are simple words, dates or sequential numbers that are used because they're easy to remember. They're also easy to crack.
A good password utilizes numbers, regular characters, upper case characters and ...
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Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Businesses around the world are getting swept up into the new Green way of doing things. And for good reason. In addition to creating good public relations buzz and cutting costs it helps keep waste more manageable. But you can go too far.
Recently a gas station in Mississippi began a ...
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Friday, March 13th, 2009
Most data breach stories are rather boring and includes talk about how companies fail to protect their data. Most companies and organizations have a least one data breach at one time or another. Binghamton University has had many and can’t seem to get their act together. One would assume they ...
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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
Ohio State University found itself mailing out 18,000 letters over the holidays informing some of their students that their names and social security numbers could have fallen into the wrong hands. Not exactly what I want to hear after the holidays.
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Friday, December 26th, 2008
Sometimes I wonder how identity thieves get their hands on personal information like social security and banking account numbers. Then stories like this one from Maine remind me of how naive people can be when it comes to protecting one’s identity. A storage facility in Scarborough Maine was prepared to ...
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Thursday, November 20th, 2008
Audits are done to insure that businesses are running the way they should and nothing is overlooked in the processes that happen in the office. Audits can be great if they actually bring about change for the better rather than just disrupting the office’s dynamic. An audit of the Pinellas ...
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Saturday, November 15th, 2008
Thousands of children have been put at risk for identity theft after a backup computer was stolen from a storage facility in Arizona. The thieves broke into a number of storage containers and ended up stealing a computer that had the information on it. The information that was stored on ...
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