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Data Breaches

Ok, we don’t write about data breaches too much anymore…. quite frankly, we couldn’t keep up if we wanted to….. not when there are a couple hundred each year. Occasionally we talk about a large one or one that received media attention here. For a chronology of data breaches please see DataLossDB.

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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 with estimates [...]

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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 resulting [...]

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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 has got [...]

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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, monitor [...]

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Data Breaches in January Close with a Bang!

February 5, 2008

Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield and Davidson Companies Expose over half a Million in Final Days. After a record number of data breaches in 2007 one would think tighter security would become a priority in 2008 but the first month showed no signs of this. Though, on average, there was a breach every day in [...]

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Don’t be Fooled, Your Identity Is Not Safe – Part 4 Policies and Procedures

January 25, 2008

Part 4 2007 Data Breaches Due to Lack of Proper Policies and Procedures Data Breaches in part one to three were mostly caused by identity theft criminals who were seeking the personal information of Americans. There is another disturbing contributor to the emerging Identity Theft epidemic and that is the lack of proper procedure and [...]

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Credit Card Data Lost by GE Money Affects 650,000

January 19, 2008

The associated press has reported that GE Money, part of General Electric Capital Corp. has mailed letters to 650,000 customers informing them of a Data Breach. GE Money processes payments for over 100 retailers including J.C. Penney. GE Money was informed in October of the missing backup tape from Iron Mountain Inc, a data storage [...]

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Don’t be Fooled, Your Identity Is Not Safe – Part 3 Storage Devices

January 19, 2008

Part 3 2007 Data Breaches Via Lost or Stolen Backup Tapes, CD’s and Hard Drives The number of people who have had their personal information exposed in 2007 is staggering. Part one and two of this sequence of articles mainly described how identity thief’s were stealing your information by hacking databases and stealing laptops. This [...]

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Don’t be Fooled, Your Identity Is Not Safe – Part 2 Stolen Laptops

January 9, 2008

Part 2 2007 Data Breaches via Stolen Laptops and Computers It is now known in the criminal underground that Identity Theft is both easy and profitable. Thieves need personally identifiable information to commit identity theft and one way they get it is to steal a laptop or buy your personal information from another laptop thief. [...]

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Don’t be Fooled, Your Identity Is Not Safe – Part 1 Hackers

January 1, 2008

Your identity is not safe regardless of the precautions you have taken because your personal information has been entrusted to companies, institutions and governments that do not secure it properly. Thieves, hackers, insecure databases, stolen laptops, corrupt employees, and lack of proper procedures and policies all contribute to the growing trend of data breaches that [...]

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