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2.2 million billing records missing on stolen backup tape

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2008-06-11 12:33:06 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...million Types of Data names, related demographic information and diagnostic codes" additionally, "Records for a subset of 1.3 million patients also contained Social Security numbers Breach Description SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Billing records of 2.2 million patients at the University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics were stolen from a vehicle...
 
 
 
 
 
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Reward: $68 million for ratting out your employer

2008-02-20 16:57:43 by Chris McClean in Security & Risk Management
 
...million of the roughly $400 million recovered by states and federal agencies when the company settled a lawsuit he brought against it seven years ago. (This was part of a larger $671 million Merck paid to settle complaints of overcharging government health plans and offering inappropriate incentives to doctors to prescribe its products While...
 
 
 
 
 
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Hannaford and Sweetbay supermarkets announce compromise of 4.2 million credit and debit cards

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2008-03-18 00:07:06 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...million customer credit- and debit-card numbers to scammers, with 1,800 fraud cases already reported." Anyone who used a credit or debit card between December 7, 2007 and March 10, 2008 at any one of the 165 Hannaford stores in the Northeast or 106 Sweetbay stores in Florida is a potential victim of this breach Reference URL Message from...
 
 
 
 
 
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138 Million Domains

2007-08-29 21:28:19 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...million. ccTLDs, such as .uk and .de, were responsible for a large chunk of the growth this time, almost 6 million domains. .com and .net, the VeriSign domains, grew more than that, but not a lot more. .cn (China), .ru (Russian Federation) and .kr (South Korea) all grew by double-digit percentages. The huge growth in .cn domains, 61% over the...
 
 
 
 
 
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138 Million Domains

2007-08-29 21:28:19 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...million. ccTLDs, such as .uk and .de, were responsible for a large chunk of the growth this time, almost 6 million domains. .com and .net, the VeriSign domains, grew more than that, but not a lot more. .cn (China), .ru (Russian Federation) and .kr (South Korea) all grew by double-digit percentages. The huge growth in .cn domains, 61% over the...
 
 
 
 
 
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Spammers handed record $234 million fine - eat that

2008-05-14 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b2858c in Network World on Security
 
The U.S. CAN-SPAM law has chewed another alleged spam outfit, this time handing out a world record fine of $234 million (116 million) to two individuals
 
 
 
 
 
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Thales buys nCipher for $100 million

2008-07-11 00:00:00 by HASH0x8472e74 in Network World on Security
 
Thales U.K. has reached an agreement to buy cryptographic security vendor nCipher for 50.7 million (US$100.3 million), the two companies announced Friday
 
 
 
 
 
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Pentagon Shoots $22 Million into Guided Bullet Tech

2008-11-28 03:20:02 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
Darpa, the Defense Department's far-out research arm, announced a pair of contracts yesterday, to start designing a super, .50-caliber sniper rifle that fires guided bullets. Lockheed Martin recieved $12.3 million for the "EXACTO" (EXtreme ACcuracy Tasked Ordnance) project, while Teledyne Scientific & Imaging, LLC got another $9.5 million
 
 
 
 
 
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Nashville laptop theft may cost $1 million

2008-01-14 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
The theft of a laptop containing Social Security numbers of Nashville, Tennessee, area voters is expected to cost local officials about US$1 million as they roll out identity-theft protection to those affected
 
 
 
 
 
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Best Buy and the $54 million laptop

2008-02-13 13:17:33 by Editor in Adventures in Security