Archive for the ‘Data Breach News’ Category
Friday, May 30th, 2008
by Doug Pollack
Most of us by now have received at least one data breach notification letter that has stated that our personal information was lost or stolen. I received one just a month ago from a brokerage firm that I did business with years ago. Often, with high profile companies ...
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Saturday, May 24th, 2008
by Doug Pollack
It was reported yesterday by TheDay in Connecticut that People's United Bank recently experienced a data breach that may affect hundreds of thousands of their customers. An affiliated third party had created unencrypted backup tapes with personal information of their customers and a box of these tapes was ...
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
by Doug Pollack
The Ponemon Institute recently published a report titled "Consumers' Report Card on Data Breach Notification" based on a survey sponsored by ID Experts.
There has been a lot of research on the costs and impact of data breaches on the organizations that have exposed the data. There has ...
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
by Doug Pollack
Earlier this week, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that the personal information of over 6,000 UCSF patients had been been exposed on the Internet for over three months last year. This situation has caused these individuals to be vulnerable to potential medical identity theft. The data breach ...
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
by Doug Pollack
An article published by the Wall Street Journal titled "Are Your Medical Records at Risk; Amid Spate of Security Lapses, Health-Care Industry Weighs Privacy Against Quality Care" discusses the growing incidents of data breaches and contributing factors within the health care world.
The article highlights the extent of ...
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