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UW data breach, 60k compromised
Posted on December 27th, 2010 No commentsThe University of Wisconsin sent out letters to roughly 60,000 students and staff, warning that hackers had managed to breach a campus ID database containing names, social security numbers and other sensitive information, reports the eSecurity Planet.
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Ind. AG sues WellPoint for $300K over data breach
Posted on November 3rd, 2010 No commentsThe Indiana attorney general’s office is suing health insurance giant WellPoint Inc.
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Big-Box Breach: The Inside Story of Wal-Mart’s Hacker Attack
Posted on October 14th, 2009 No commentsWal-Mart was the victim of a serious security breach in 2005 and 2006 in which hackers targeted the development team in charge of the chain’s point-of-sale system and siphoned source code and other sensitive data to a computer in Eastern Europe, Wired.com has learned.
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Privacy and the Law: Alysa Hutnik of Kelley Drye
Posted on September 30th, 2009 No commentsLegal Insights on Data Privacy Trends and Breach ResponseYour organization has been breached – how should you immediately respond?
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Protection is ALWAYS better than cure
Posted on September 30th, 2009 No commentsData Loss Prevention (DLP) has made it to the top spot of the worldwide TheInfoPro™ Information Security priority list. In certain countries across the globe, the key driver for this is mandatory data breach disclosure laws that impose fines on non-compliant companies.
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University data breach exposes 163,000 women to identity theft
Posted on September 30th, 2009 No commentsThe women were participating in a mammography study conducted by the UNC School of Medicine. The breach could date as far back as 2007, and has exposed Social Security numbers, dates of birth and other sensitive information on the study participants, according to a report in the Charlotte, NC-based The News & Observer.
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Abandoned business records can’t be destroyed
Posted on July 3rd, 2009 No commentsEvery year, businesses go under and disappear, leaving behind boxes of transaction records, Social Security numbers and other sensitive information that could lead to identity theft and other forms of fraud. Landlords and owners of storage companies, who tend to get stuck holding these records, have no legal way to dispose of them…
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