Archive: Data Leaks
Classic tech tips filed under Data Leaks.
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Thank you NC department of revenue...
I heard on the local news last night that the North Carolina Department of Revenue has lost a laptop that had ~30,000 state taxpayers information on it. Social Security numbers/etc... The report I sa…
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Chase throws data on 2.6 million customers in landfill
Chase Card services mistakenly threw out backup tapes that contained the card information of around 2.6 million customers (according to the article Circuit City card holders (former and current.)) 5 …
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The ways data is stolen..
Brian Krebs highlights a study on data theft/breaches. There are some interesting results (just 1/3 of data breaches were from criminal hacking, 29% from stolen laptops or storage media, 23% from imp…
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AT&T has info on 19,000 stolen
AT&T has had a breach of data that revealed information on as many as 19,000 individuals that had used their online store. It appears that credit card data is what was stolen, it happened over the we…
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New Data Leaks section
I've added yet another category for "data leaks". This is where I'll put news along the lines of X company leaked data on yyyyy customers. It's unfortunate that this is something that likely happens …
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Verizon emails a customer spreadsheet by mistake....
Verizon Wireless accidentally attached the wrong file to an email and wound up broadcasting an Excel spreadsheet with the details of some 5210 customers to about 1800 people. Apparently, they were se…