Archive for the ‘Data Breach News’ Category
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
by Doug Pollack
In an interesting twist of fate, Equifax, one of the three major national credit bureau, acknowledged this week that they experienced a data breach last month when they:
"sent out IRS W-2 statements to most if their current employees and some former employees, they discovered that some of the ...
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
by Doug Pollack
The Ponemon Institute released their 5th annual 2009 Annual Study: Cost of Data Breach last month. This year, the report explored several new areas and came up with some interesting and in some cases surprising conclusions. These include:
- A large proportion (82%) of organizations surveyed experienced at least ...
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Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009
Just in, data breach incident occurs at the North Pole. Santa has notified over 4MM good boys and girls and is providing one year of free credit monitoring and sleigh rides. While Linda Foley, chair of the Identity Theft Resource Center, was not familiar with this specific incident, she was ...
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Friday, October 30th, 2009
by Doug Pollack
In a recently released report, Javelin Research has highlighted a key finding that is important to those of us who have received a data breach notification letter from an organization that we have entrusted with our personal information -- whether a bank, healthcare provider, insurer or merchant. This ...
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Thursday, October 15th, 2009
by Doug Pollack
The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) has affirmed that is has experienced a data breach incident affecting over 800,000 doctors in the US. According to Jeff Smokler at BCBSA, as reported in SC Magazine, thieves stole an employee's computer that contained an unencrypted file with the personal ...
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Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
by Doug Pollack
Starting September 23, 2009, healthcare organizations covered by HIPAA and the HITECH Act will be required, in the case of data breach incidents where personal health information (PHI) is improperly exposed, to notify both the individuals affected by the breach as well as the federal government, who will ...
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Friday, April 24th, 2009
by Doug Pollack
A recent news segment on the risks of identity crime that occur in the common usage of social networking sites such as Facebook, Myspace and Twitter.
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Friday, March 13th, 2009
by Doug Pollack
This past week, a seminar was held on the campus of UC Berkeley on the topic of Security Breach Notification. Wired Magazine published an article about this topic and the unfortunately conclusion that while breach notification laws are substantially increasing the awareness of data breaches with the public ...
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Monday, February 16th, 2009
By Rebecca Seaman
Remember the classic “Nigerian 419” scam; where a rich Prince or Bank Executive from a foreign country just needed your banking information to facilitate a transfer of funds? In exchange for your help, you would receive a percentage of those funds; Gratis. And just like that, you could ...
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Friday, February 13th, 2009
by Doug Pollack
The VA this week announced that they will pay up to $20 million to veterans whose personal information was exposed in 2006 when a laptop was lost by an employee of Unisys, a government contractor that was handling claims processing for them.
USA Today reported that while the laptop ...
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