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Data Breaches

Sampling of Data Breaches Reported in September 2008

October 9, 2008

Data breaches continue to be reported at alarming rates even though there is evidence that a lot of corporations fail to report as required in 37 States. To date there have been 524 data breaches affecting over 30 Million Americans. This is a sharp increase from the 424 breaches reported in 2007. It [...]

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European Data Breaches Highlight This Months Update

September 3, 2008

What’s interesting about data breaches reported in August 2008 is the extent of breaches in foreign countries. The largest and most disturbing breach may affect many Americans as well. According to the Sunday Herald of the UK an investigation has discovered that
“a previously unknown Indian hacker successfully breached the IT defences of [...]

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Identity Theft News Reveals Gangs, Cover Ups and a New Target

August 14, 2008

Some interesting identity theft articles came out this week from various newspapers across the country. Here are some quick highlights of these articles.
The Wall Street Journal has reported that 5 of 9 retailers involved in the nations largest identity theft ring bust, in which computer hackers swiped more than 40 million credit [...]

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Data Breaches from July 2008 and the Lack of Reporting

August 2, 2008

Data breaches for July 2008 were relatively minor in terms of total Americans affected though the actual number of breaches continued the normal trend. The only breach affecting more than 100,000 Americans was Blue Cross Blue Shield from Georgia who exposed 202,000 people by sending letters, containing personal and medical information to wrong addresses. [...]

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Summary of June 2008 Data Breaches

July 4, 2008

Data breaches in June were a bit slower than this years previous months but still left far too many Americans seeking identity theft protection. In fact, if the 2.2 million billing records, which included 1.3 million Social Security numbers, weren’t lost on stolen data tapes at the University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics this [...]

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May Data Breaches and an Appeal to Protect Yourself From Identity Theft

June 6, 2008

Data Breaches for May continued the month to month trend of the past few years that increasingly leaves our personal information exposed to identity thieves and other criminals. May 2008 had a couple dozen companies or institutions reporting breaches. The Bank of New York Mellon data breach, summarized below, affected the most Americans [...]

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3.5 Million Identities Put at Risk in April

May 5, 2008

Identity theft becomes a concern for approximately 3.5 million Americans who had their personal and confidential information compromised in one of Aprils twenty-seven data breaches. This continues a monthly trend of data breaches over the last few years that routinely puts over 50 million Americans at risk each year and contributes heavily to the [...]

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Identity Thieves Steal UCI Students Tax Returns

April 7, 2008

Identity thieves have stolen the tax returns of 93 University of California, Irvine (UCI) students and up to 7,ooo students are at risk according to the Orange County Register. The identity theft ring was detected when several UCI students reported to campus police that their tax returns came back “already processed”. Now that [...]

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Identity Theft Protection Necessary As Data Breaches Show No Signs of Slowing

March 31, 2008

Identity Theft continues to garner media attention, and rightfully so as new identity theft victims are added to the alarming totals daily, but little is actually done to stop a major root cause, the ineffective security of our confidential information. Citizens have heeded the call to protect themselves and have begun to shred documents, [...]

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LifeLock Headlines Identity Theft News in February

March 4, 2008

Lifelock continued to make headlines with both good and not so good news. In an effort to raise awareness on identity theft, Lifelock launched a grassroots marketing campaign titled “Strike Back – Defeat Identity Theft Now”. The campaign trail, which features LifeLock CEO Todd Davis, started February 24 in Miami, Florida and continues [...]

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