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The Department of Commerce has disclosed losing computers holding sensitive personal information.
More than 1,100 laptop computers have vanished from the Department of Commerce since 2001, including nearly 250 from the Census Bureau containing such personal information as names, incomes and Social Security numbers, federal officials said
Source: Washington Post
Written by MCruz on September 23rd, 2006 with no comments.
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The Michigan Department of Community Health has notified over 4,000 former and current Michigan residents that they are at risk of identity theft. The MDCH is offering a year’s worth of credit monitoring for free.
A flash drive - a portable storage device containing names, current addresses, telephone, Social Security numbers and birth dates of the people participating in the study - has been missing from a secured floor in an MDCH building since Aug. 4 and is presumed to have been stolen, MDCH spokesman T.J. Bucholz said.
Source: Detroit Free Press
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Written by MCruz on September 17th, 2006 with no comments.
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So many tips, so much news with very little time. Here are this weekend’s personal data exposure reports:
Written by MCruz on September 10th, 2006 with 2 comments.
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A contractor’s mistake has the TSA warning its former employees that their personal information were mailed to the wrong addresses.
Accenture, a contractor that handles TSA personnel, sent 1,195 documents to the wrong former employees during a recent mailing, according to a letter signed by Richard Whitford, TSA assistant administrator for human capital.
The documents were standard forms that are sent to employees after they leave the government. The forms often list an employee’s Social Security number, birth date and salary. It’s unclear how many forms had that information.
Source: USA Today
Written by MCruz on September 6th, 2006 with no comments.
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Approximately 38,000 current and retired City of Chicago worker’s personal data were stored in a laptop that was stolen back in April 2005. The computer was stolen from an employee’s home who worked for Nationwide Retirement Solutions.
The company says the risk anyone might access the data, which included names, addresses, phone numbers, birth dates and Social Security numbers, is low because the computer was protected by a complicated password and a user identification, according to the city.
The company is in the process of notifying affected people and is offering one year of free credit monitoring.
Source: Chicago Tribune Thanks to MaxxP for the tip!
Written by MCruz on September 1st, 2006 with no comments.
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A software glitch on the Education Department’s website has exposed federal direct student loan borrowers. Users who accessed the site between Sunday and Tuesday were able to see other people’s information such as Social Security number and date of birth.
The Education Department said Wednesday it would arrange for free credit monitoring for as many as 32,000 student loan borrowers after their personal data appeared on its Web site.
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Education Department officials blamed the breach on a routine software upgrade, conducted by Dallas-based contractor Affiliated Computers Services Inc., that mixed up data for different borrowers when users accessed the Web site. Since Sunday, 26 borrowers have complained.
Source: CNN
Written by MCruz on August 24th, 2006 with no comments.
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