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School officials nervous about student identity theft
Explore Article The Sun Journal (Aug 11 2010)
LEWISTON — A new state law requires schools to ask parents to submit their children's Social Security numbers so schools can track students' progress after they graduate from high school. That has some officials worried that schools collecting individual Social Security numbers this fall could put students at risk for things such as identif...Comment on Article Mentions: Maine U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
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Retirees vent fury over leak of data; Year of credit monitoring not enough, they say
View all 2 articles » Explore Article delawareonline.com (Sep 1 2010)
Angry state pensioners swamped Aon Consulting's phone lines Tuesday after opening their mailboxes and finding letters informing them that the benefits consultant had inadvertently posted their Social Security numbers and other personal information on the Web.Delaware state retiree data breached - delawareonline.com
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A proposed federal data security law… one more time!
View all 7 articles » Explore Article wistechnology.com (Aug 25 2010)
Over the past month, two different bills have been proposed in Congress to address federal data security requirements. The most comprehensive of the two, and the one garnering the most attention is S. 3742, referred to as the “Data Security and Breach Notification Act of 2010.” The bill was introduced on August 5, 2010 by Senators Mark Pryor (...Senators Want Breach Law Across Industries - Insurance Networking News
New Senate Legislation Tackles Data Breaches, Echoes HITECH Act - ihealthbeat.org
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California Legislation Would Require Companies To Specify The Data Exposed In Breaches
Explore Article Dark Reading (Aug 26 2010)
New legislation sitting on Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's desk raises issue of standard breach notificationsComment on Article Mentions: California California Senate ESG
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Infected USB drive blamed for '08 military cyber breach; Malware was uploaded to network run by the U.S. Central Command
Explore Article Computerworld (Aug 26 2010)
A USB drive loaded with malware was used to compromise sensitive military networks in 2008, according to U.S Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn.Comment on Article Mentions: Jaikumar Vijayan Computerworld USB
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Attorney General Announces Investigation Into Yale Security Breach
Explore Article Connecticut Watchdog (Aug 19 2010)
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal announced today that his office is investigating a data breach after Yale Medical School reported the theft of a laptop containing personal health information involving as many as 1,000 individuals. Blumenthal’s office is investigating to determine the causes of the breach and whether state or federal law...Comment on Article Mentions: Richard Blumenthal
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Russian Suspect Arrested in France
Explore Article bankinfosecurity.com (Aug 11 2010)
Law enforcement officials say Horohorin was among the creators of a network called "CarderPlanet," which remains one of the most sophisticated organizations of online financial criminals in the world. This network has been repeatedly linked to nearly every major intrusion of financial information reported to the international law enforcement community.Comment on Article Mentions: U.S. Secret Service Russia Russian
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Petri Bill Would Enlist IRS Against Identity Theft
View all 2 articles » Explore Article American Chronicle (Aug 18 2010)
The Petri-Bean bill - the Social Security Identity Defense (SSIDA) Act - would require the IRS to inform a taxpayer when his or her Social Security number has been used fraudulently to gain employment; provide that the IRS share this information with the FBI and allow the FBI to make facts available to state and local law enforcement agencies;...Beware online identity thieves posing as government agencies - Tulsa World
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Medical council files motion in red-flags case
Explore Article home.modernhealthcare.com (Aug 19 2010)
The Council of Medical Specialty Societies, a Chicago-based organization that counts among its members 30 medical societies and some 600,000 physicians, has filed a motion to intervene on an existing case that seeks to block the Federal Trade Commission from making doctors follow the same “red flags” rule as banks for preventing, detecting and...Comment on Article Mentions: Federal Trade Commission
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1,300 employees names and Social Security numbers exposed due to spreadsheet being emailed
Explore Article OSF Data Loss Database (Aug 17 2010)
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Protecting your identity on public documents
Explore Article WMBFNews.com (Aug 6 2010)
A federal report shows government can play a key role in reducing the number of identity theft cases, which is why Dillon County Council voted on an identity theft prevention plan. Council voted to limit what information is available on public records for people to freely see. Court documents and deeds will have a lot of information, in s... -
Boise employee information on lost tape
View all 2 articles » Explore Article KHQ Right Now (Aug 10 2010)
The Boise mayor's office says the names and personal information of about 300 current and former Boise city employees were on a backup computer tape that went missing in March. The tape was lost by a courier hired by Mercer, an employment and benefits consultant. Information including Social Security numbers and dates of birth of employees ...Rockland’s paychecks scattered from truck - Home - BostonHerald.com
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Online data breaches plague Metro Nashville
Explore Article tennessean.com (Aug 13 2010)
Metro government continues to mistakenly release the sensitive personal information of residents nearly three years after the Social Security numbers of 330,000 Nashville voters were put at risk. Five separate incidents across various city government offices since then have exposed Nashvillians to potential identity theft. The most recent mistake, which involved the Metro assessor's office posting the banking information of three Nashville flood victims online, was discovered last week.
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Your Social Security number may not be unique to you
Explore Article WalletPop (Aug 13 2010)
How many times do companies use your Social Security number as the unique identifier for you? You doctor, bank, employer, all depend on the number for billing and recording transactions. A troubling new study found that millions of Americans have more than one Social Security number, and millions of Social Security numbers are shared by more than one person. -
ChoicePoint Breach Exposed 13,750 Consumer Records
Explore Article Blog Directory (washingtonpost.com) (Oct 20 2009)
ChoicePoint Inc., one of the nation's consumer data brokers, agreed to pay $275,000 to federal regulators as a result of a data breach last year that exposed Social Security numbers and other personal information on 13,750 people. In 2006, ChoicePoint - now a subsidiary of Reed Elsevier Inc - paid $15 million to settle charges that it violated...
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Derek Beckwith » New Law Aims to Shore Up Retail Data Security
Businesses large and small should take note of this important compliance development.
Derek Beckwith » Mass. institutes new identity theft regulations
Actually, the law impacts any business storing the PII (personally identifiable information) of any Massachusetts ...
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