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Corporate Spying

2008-01-16 12:21:41 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...telephone records of company directors, employees, and journalists. In an effort to track leaks to the media, federal law was tightened to prohibit using fraudulent means to obtain telephone records. Financial records were already off-limits. But federal law doesn't forbid assuming a false identity to get other information -- an area that...
 
Tags: agents, intelligence agents, wal-mart, off-duty police officers, officers, wal-mart employee fired, cell-phone calls, phone calls, obtain
 
 
 
 
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Former LendingTree employees sold access to customer information

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2008-04-23 13:08:37 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...telephone number, Social Security number, income and employment information Breach Description Recently, LendingTree learned that several former employees may have taken Company passwords and given them to a handful of lenders. These lenders then used the passwords to access LendingTree customer information files, normally available only to...
 
Tags: information, lendingtree, necessarily fault lendingtree, fault lendingtree, employment information, credit card information, lendingtree faqs, information security personnel, security
 
 
 
 
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A coward exposes personal information on 40% of Chileans

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2008-05-16 13:56:50 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...telephone numbers and taxpayer identification numbers Breach Description An anonymous hacker has posted personal data about 6 million Chilean residents on the Internet, highlighting wider privacy problems in the country. The data was posted early Saturday morning on Fayerwayer.com, a popular Chilean technology blog Reference URL...
 
Tags: personal, information, chilean residents, residents, poor data protection, data protection, personal data, breach description, breach
 
 
 
 
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SQL injections compromise Balmar e-commerce site

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2008-06-23 22:07:43 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...telephone numbers, emails, and credit card information Breach Description Balmar Incorporated notified the Maryland State Attorney General of a breach that occurred sometime between April 4, 2008 and April 30, 2008, in which sensitive customer information was compromised through their ecommerce site Reference URL Maryland State Attorney...
 
Tags: information, personal information, sensitive information, balmar, sensitive customer information, breach description, breach, balmar e-commerce site, security breach
 
 
 
 
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10,501 USAF members informed of missing laptop

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2008-01-01 00:15:46 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...telephone numbers Breach Description A laptop containing sensitive personal information belonging to active-duty and retired members of the United States Air Force has been reported missing from the home of a USAF band member at Bolling Air Force Base in Washington, D.C. The laptop has been missing since November 19, 2007 Reference URL WSFA...
 
Tags: sensitive personal information, personal information, air force, air force base, laptop, personal information home, usaf band, air force officials, band
 
 
 
 
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Big Brother Is Listening ... And Listening ... And Listening

2007-12-18 02:50:05 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
The NSA intercepts entire streams of electronic communications containing millions of telephone calls and e-mails. It runs the intercepts through very powerful computers that screen them for particular names, telephone numbers, Internet addresses, and trigger words or phrases. Any communications containing flagged information" are analyzed
 
Tags: telephone, electronic communications, telephone calls, communications, powerful computers, trigger words, internet addresses, e-mails, names
 
 
 
 
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DHS notified the Greenville County School District of compromise

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2008-01-07 09:08:03 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...telephone numbers Breach Description The U.S. Department of Homeland Security notified the Chief Information Officer of the State of South Carolina of suspicious activity involving Greenville County School District data. A malicious program had been installed on a computer used by the school district's benefits department that captured...
 
Tags: computer, benefits department computer, benefits department, benefits department accesses, department, school district, school district employees, employees, homeland security
 
 
 
 
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Geeks.com customer credit card data compromised

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2008-01-07 21:34:58 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...telephone numbers, email addresses, credit card numbers, expiration dates, and card verification numbers Breach Description An undisclosed number of Geeks.com customers have been affected by an apparent breach of the company's online security. Geeks.com reportedly noticed the breach on December 5th, 2007 and began sending letters to...
 
Tags: credit, credit card, card, geeks, credit reports, report credit, breach description, breach, apparent breach
 
 
 
 
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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
...telephone numbers, credit and debit card information, and Social Security numbers Breach Description The State of Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott announced the taking of legal action against Select Physical Therapy Texas Limited Partnership and its parent company, Select Medical Corporation, for systematically exposing their customers to...
 
Tags: clients personal information, personal information, sensitive personal information, information, sensitive medical information, customers sensitive information, texas attorney, texas, attorney
 
 
 
 
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Fraud on the Target Visa call center

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2008-02-08 15:32:45 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...telephone number Breach Description The Target Fraud Prevention team discovered that three employees of a company that provides call center assistance for Target National Bank used the privileges granted as part of their job to commit fraud. The suspected employees used Target Visa card account information to place fraudulent charges on...
 
Tags: call, target, call center employees, accounts, target visa accounts, call center, call center assistance, employees, target national bank