Monthly Archives: December 2009

Family ID theft protection

December 21, 2009 – 2:43 pm

The holiday season brings families and friends together. It’s a blessing for some, but for others … not so much. These are the families whose relatives and friends include at least one drug addict, alcoholic, convict, compulsive shopper or gambler or a get-rich-quick scammer. In other words, these are the families who need to worry [...]

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Data breach Hall of Shame, 2009

December 17, 2009 – 2:59 pm

This is the time of year when all the Top 10, Best of, and Worst of lists come out. And just for the folks who worry about data breaches, information security, identity theft and institutional stupidity, ComputerWorld has rolled out their 2009 Data Breach Hall of Shame.
In no particular order–but each special in its own [...]

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Notre Dame data breach; ID theft risk for 24,000 employees

December 11, 2009 – 1:04 pm

A data breach is never a good thing, but when the data breach isn’t discovered for three years, and then those responsible wait two months before notifying those affected and at risk of ID theft … Well, 24,000 University of Notre Dame employees are confronting that situation.
Files containing the employees’ names, Social Security numbers, birth [...]

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ID theft risk for BlueCross BlueShield members after data breach

December 4, 2009 – 3:38 pm

Members will be receiving mail from BlueCross BlueShield any day now, but it won’t be Christmas cards. Instead, they’ll be getting letters warning them that they are at a heightened risk from ID theft because their personal, financial and even medical information may be among the millions of records missing after 57 computer hard drives [...]

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