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Colorado Division of Motor Vehicles cited in audit report

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2008-07-11 09:18:07 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...cited above The Division of Motor Vehicles put 3.4 million Coloradans at risk of identity theft due to flaws in the way driver's-license information is handled, lawmakers learned Tuesday at an interim transportation committee hearing The DMV regularly sends large batches of personal information over the Internet without encryption and has...
 
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Select Medical Corporation charged by the Texas Attorney General

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2008-01-11 16:20:31 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...cited above Select Physical Therapy Texas Limited Partnership cited for exposing customers medical records Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott took legal action today against Select Physical Therapy Texas Limited Partnership and its parent company, Select Medical Corporation, for systematically exposing their customers to identity theft...
 
Tags: clients personal information, personal information, sensitive personal information, information, sensitive medical information, customers sensitive information, texas attorney, texas, attorney
 
 
 
 
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IT security lacking in best practices

2008-03-09 00:00:00 by HASH0x8473718 in Network World on Security
 
...cited by 15% of respondents, followed by access management, cited by 13
 
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Oh No! Security Metrics!

2008-04-18 12:43:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...cited those vulnerability figures I use to point out that other development organizations need to admit they have a secure development problem. Looking back at the figures we cited, it's pretty clear that the sheer volume of security vulnerabilities supports our assertion, regardless of the subtleties of security metrics. More about this...
 
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Deloitte & Touche and IKON lose confidential information

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2007-12-20 14:23:09 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...cited above On November 21st, 2007, D&T USA's document management vendor, IKON Office Solutions, Inc. ("IKON"), informed D&T USA that a laptop containing a file with information about current and former partners, principals and employees of D&T USA and its subsidiaries had been stolen from an IKON employee's vehicle two days earlier The...
 
Tags: information, touche, ikon, confidential information, information security controls, deloitte, third-parties secure information, touche partners, ikon office solutions
 
 
 
 
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TRICARE breach affects 4,700 households

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2007-12-20 12:15:59 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...cited above A potential compromise of personally identifiable information belonging to approximately 4,700 TRICARE beneficiaries located in Europe occurred recently due to a problem with a claims Web site managed by Electronic Data Systems (EDS The incident was reported to TRICARE on November 7, 2007. The information that was potentially...
 
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Laptop stolen in Royal Bolton Hospital break-in

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2007-12-19 15:24:44 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...cited above A COMPUTER containing the personal details of hundreds of patients at the Royal Bolton Hospital has been stolen Thieves took the laptop when they broke into the department for thoracic care, which handles patients with chest and breathing complaints Evan] I wonder why sensitive personal information was being stored on a laptop...
 
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Iowa DNR loses personal information on 7,000

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2007-12-19 14:22:00 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...cited above A contractor for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources lost a computer flash drive containing the names and Social Security numbers of more than 7,000 Iowans The information on the flash drive was about people who operate water and sewage treatment plants, landfills and well-drilling operations the records, kept by Salem...
 
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Citizens Advice stolen laptop was encrypted

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2007-12-13 13:37:02 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...cited above A laptop containing client information has been stolen from the car of an employee of Citizens Advice in Northern Ireland Up to 60,000 client records are held on the computer, which was stolen in the early hours of 5 December 2007. According to Citizens Advice in Northern Ireland, the data stored relates to people from the...
 
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory visitor information exposed

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2007-12-11 13:45:21 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...cited above Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been bombarded by a coordinated phishing attack aimed at multiple national labs and may have unwittingly handed over to attackers the personal information of anybody who visited the lab over a 14-year span, including Social Security numbers Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) recently...
 
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