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The names and Social Security numbers of 3,031 newly licensed nurses were posted online twice in the past two months.
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Personal information about an unspecified number of current and former Prudential Financial employees was on a handful of laptop computers stolen from a consulting firm’s New York offices, Prudential told employees last week.
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Laughable new service. Don’t be fooled by entering your SSN or credit card number. Phishing anyone?
Written by MCruz on January 25th, 2007 with 3 comments.
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Computer records containing medical claim information, health data, and Social Security numbers of 28,279 Nationwide insurance customers were stolen from the office of a vendor in Massachusetts, the company said Tuesday.
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Interesting article which discusses the possible solution to identity theft. Author suggests that financial institutions need to be liable for the cost of fraudulent transactions.
Written by MCruz on January 24th, 2007 with no comments.
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Thousands of KB Home customers are being warned of the risk of identity theft after one of the home builder’s computers was stolen from a Charleston sales office. 2,700 customers are affected.
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IRS computer tapes containing taxpayer information are missing after they were delivered to City Hall in Kansas City.
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Five laptops containing data of workers at United Technologies, Hamilton Sundstrand’s parent corporation, were stolen from the New York office of Towers Perrin, possibly by an employee. Towers Perrin is a financial management company that oversees UTC.
Written by MCruz on January 19th, 2007 with no comments.
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The TJX Companies Inc. has reported an intrusion to their computer systems which handles their customer transaction system. All major card brands accepted by TJX have been affected, including Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. The full extent of this breach is still not known.
The credit and debit card data of a large number of shoppers in the U.S., Puerto Rico and Canada, and possibly in the U.K and Ireland, may have been compromised as the result of a hacking incident at The TJX Companies Inc. last month.
According to a statement issued today by the Framingham, Mass.-based retailer, the network intrusion took place in mid-December and involved systems used to process credit, debit, check and merchandise-return transactions at its TJ Maxx, Marshalls, HomeGoods and A.J. Wright stores in the U.S and Puerto Rico.
Customers who have concerns about this incident may visit TJX’s site or call 866-484-6978.
Source: Computerworld
Written by MCruz on January 18th, 2007 with 2 comments.
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Written by MCruz on January 18th, 2007 with no comments.
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Three University of Idaho desktop computers were stolen from the school’s Advancement Services office over the holidays. A press release has been issued by the university to warn over 331k people.
The investigation revealed that six months prior to the theft the computer hard drives contained datasets with names, addresses and Social Security numbers for approximately 70,000 individuals. As a precaution, the University of Idaho is making a broad public notification about the computer theft to approximately 331,800 individuals. The larger number represents the total number of individuals whose information may have been accessed by Advancement Services as part of the office’s work.
Anyone affected by the breach can call the school’s hotline at: (866) 351-1860. More information about the breach can be found at their special website: http://www.identityalert.uidaho.edu
Written by MCruz on January 15th, 2007 with no comments.
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