Archive for the ‘Data Breaches’ Category
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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Monday, November 10th, 2008
Companies spend thousands and sometimes millions of dollars each year to protect the company’s information from being stolen. What happens when it comes time to replace the computer that was holding the information? Companies should wipe the drive and then sell it or destroy it before throwing it away. ...
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Sunday, November 9th, 2008
One of the largest pharmacy prescription processors announced Thursday that it’s being threatened by extortionist and if they don’t meet their payment demands the extortionist are going to release the information of millions of Americans.
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
In this digital age we have more and more problems to worry about. As the Internet gets faster and more advanced to becomes easier for thieves to steal information from unsuspecting people. As networks get bigger and computers become common place it becomes a bigger playground for malware and viruses ...
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Saturday, November 1st, 2008
Washington State announced today, Friday October 31, that 400 passport applications may have been breached. This means that those 400 people have been left open to identity theft. So far 383 people have been notified about the identity theft. Not all of the 383 have been victims of identity theft ...
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
3,300 people who had been charged with minor drug and alcohol offences are left open to identity theft when their personal information was left unsecured on a website for 11 days. The information was available from late September to early October according to officials.
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
A 15 year old boy has been arrested after he accessed a database that had 250 names and personal information of the past and present Shenendehowa transportation employees. The boy was able to use his student password to access the information.
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
The Fresno police department are looking for the people who broken into the KRM building and stole some computers. One of the computers,a laptop, had very sensitive information on it. The laptop had personal information on almost 5,700 city employees. The information on the computer dates back to 1973.
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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
Hospital patients of Mary Washington Hospital in Fredericksburg, VA have been exposed to Identity theft. A man was using the hospital's online registration system when he accidentally found the files of 803 patients. The hospital is claiming that the data breach is an anomaly and that the man was the ...
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Sunday, October 19th, 2008
Boston College in March 2005 had to send letters to 100,000 alumni to inform them that a server of theirs had been hacked and that they were subject to identity theft. The server that was locked in a server closet in one of the computer labs held the records of ...
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Saturday, October 18th, 2008
Deutsche Telekom is the German mobile phone subsidiary of T-Mobile which lost about 17 millions customers personal information in early 2006. Why didn't we hear about it back then? The T-Moblie company kept it a secret for more than 2 years before going public with the information about the data ...
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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
The computer was stolen from the car that was parked in down town Charleston. The police think that the computer wasn't stolen for the use of the data but they are still concerned about the lost information. The information that was on the laptop is password protected but this will ...
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