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Hard drives purchased at Oklahoma auction contained personal information

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2008-05-26 14:48:06 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...hard drives from all surplus computer equipment after a server containing the names and Social Security numbers of thousands of residents was sold at an auction recently Reference URL KOCO Channel 5 News Associated Press via Tulsa World KTEN Channel 10 News Report Credit KOCO Channel 5 News Response From the online sources cited above An...
 
Tags: oklahoma, information, personal information, oklahoma tax commission, store confidential information, oklahoma corporation commission, corporation commission, information security, tax commission
 
 
 
 
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CollegeInvest external hard drive goes missing

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2008-04-30 14:10:46 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...hard drive with the personal data of some customers was missing. Despite an extensive internal investigation, the hard drive has not been found Reference URL CollegeInvest Data Privacy Information Frequently Asked Questions The Gazette (Colorado Springs Colorado Fox News The Denver Post Report Credit CollegeInvest Response From the online...
 
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Hard drive stolen from New Mexico State University was encrypted

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2008-01-07 09:50:57 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...hard drive was stolen from the New Mexico State University Special Events Department sometime between December 30th, 2007 and January 2nd, 2008 while located in an office in the Pan American Center. The hard drive contained personal information belonging to every employee hired by the department since 1999 Reference URL KOB.com Channel 4...
 
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External hard drive stolen from Georgetown University

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2008-01-29 15:54:12 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...hard drive was reported stolen from a locked office within the Office of Student Affairs in the Leavey Center on the Main Campus on January 3, 2008. The hard drive contained sensitive personal information belonging to current and former students, faculty and staff Reference URL Georgetown University Press Release NBC Channel 4 News story ABC...
 
Tags: sensitive personal information, personal information, georgetown, georgetown university, hard drive, information, georgetown alumni, personal data, data
 
 
 
 
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Missing University of Akron portable hard drive

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2008-01-14 11:33:26 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...hard drive is missing from the University of Akron. According to the university, the hard drive may have been discarded and/or destroyed. The hard drive contained sensitive personal information belonging to current and former students attending classes at the College of Education Reference URL Akron Beacon Journal News Story WKYC TV Online...
 
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A Niche to a Niche is Still Hard to Staff

2008-07-10 12:59:36 by rybolov in The Guerilla CISO
 
...hard job, you have to be able to out-infantry the infantry, out-mechanic the mechanics, out-radio the radio guys, and you need to know a language. Security is pretty much the same thingyou have to out-techie the techies, out-business the MBAs, and out-jerkify the auditors Sound complicated? Yes, it is, and its hard to find people who can do...
 
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Murder, His Hard Drive Wrote

2008-05-23 04:00:00 by Marty Graham in Wired Security
 
...hard drive to help convict him of murder. This week the lab became the sixth computer forensic lab in the nation to be accredited by the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors, in another sign that computer forensics is no longer just about investigating hacker attacks We've found video of gangsters rapping a song about a murder they...
 
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Researchers find hard drive encryption's Achilles' heel

2008-02-22 14:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Researchers at Princeton University have discovered a way to steal the hard drive encryption key used by several high-profile products. With that key, hackers could get access to all of the data stored on an encrypted hard drive
 
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Another VA hard drive lost

2007-02-06 22:50:18 by Perry Carpenter in Security Renaissance
 
...Hard Drive Missing From Department of Veterans Affairs VA Loses Another Hard Drive, Vet Data At Risk
 
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Removing hard drive data -- the YouTube way

2008-04-18 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b5cc8c in Network World on Security
 
With stories surfacing on news channels regularly about lost or stolen data or the ability to recover data from discarded or resold computers and their hard drives, Computerworld decided to look at some cheap methods of removing that sensitive data from your hard drive permanently. And, what better place to look than YouTube
 
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