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UNC data breach exposes 163,000 SSNs
Posted on September 28th, 2009 No commentsThe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill today began notifying about 163,000 women about the potential compromise of their Social Security numbers and other personal information after a hacker breached a system containing the data.
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Colo. Springs hospital looks for missing data
Posted on September 28th, 2009 No commentsA Colorado Springs hospital and police are investigating the apparent theft of Social Security numbers and other personal information of 175 patients.
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Richard Holober: Landmark privacy law deserves an update
Posted on September 28th, 2009 No commentsAs the tally of victims grows, so must our commitment to strengthen privacy protections.
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Identity theft growing, getting harder to stop | Business | Star-Telegram
Posted on September 28th, 2009 No commentsWhatever tools an identity thief is using, whether Dumpster-diving for individual credit card numbers, or stealing identities by the millions, “the damage that you can do to someone is exactly the same,” said Wayne Ivey, a Florida law enforcement officer who has specialized in identity theft investigations for more than 15 years.
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53% of German companies had one or more data breaches in the last 12 months
Posted on September 18th, 2009 No commentsPGP Corporation announced the results from The Ponemon Institute’s third annual study on encryption usage in the enterprise – The 2009 Annual Study: German Enterprise Encryption Trends.
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ID theft getting harder to stop
Posted on September 18th, 2009 No commentsWhatever tools an identity thief is using, whether Dumpster diving for individual credit card numbers, or stealing identities by the millions — “the damage that you can do to someone is exactly the same,” said Wayne Ivey, a Florida law enforcement officer who has specialized in identity theft investigations for more than 15 years. But this rapidly evolving crime is becoming more difficult to stop, Ivey said: Only one in 700 identity thieves is ever arrested.
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