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Data Breach

January 13, 2010 – 3:06 pm

2009 Identity Theft Resource Center Breach Report
The Identity Theft Resource Center’s numbers on last years’ data breaches are out, but despite some figures that are seemingly good news, the overall picture is muddled if not outright bleak.
Nearly 500 data breaches were reported last year – a 25% decrease from 2008. That’s the first decrease in [...]

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LifeLock review: 7 university data breaches in March

April 3, 2009 – 12:22 pm

The education sector was responsible for one-third of all reported data breaches between January 2005 and October 2008, with universities to blame for 79% of those, according to analysis by J. Campana and Associates LLC.
Given the number of university students and employees nationwide, it’s clear that millions of us are at risk of identity theft [...]

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Too many data breaches for you NOT to have LifeLock

January 16, 2009 – 3:36 pm

A good bit of my identity theft and data breach info comes from A Chronology of Data Breaches, which is compiled by the good folks at Privacy Rights Clearinghouse. I periodically cruise through their site, checking to see what groups of numbskulls has lost how many records recently.
This week there have been eight newly reported [...]

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Data breach big as Texas hits 89,000 lottery winners. It’s time for LifeLock.

November 3, 2008 – 11:59 am

It’s true what they say about everything being bigger in Texas: big hair, big ranches and now, a big data breach.
More than 89,000 lucky lottery winners are getting the bad news from the Texas Lottery Commission that a former employee took their names, addresses, Social Security numbers and their prize amounts with him when he [...]

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Data breaches up 69%. You need LifeLock.

October 31, 2008 – 8:40 am

“We’re from the government, and we’re hear to help you.” Everybody knows when they hear those words that things are about to go downhill fast.
“The check’s in the mail.” Yeah, right. Anytime a creditor hears those words, he knows the check’s not in the mail, and probably never will be.
Add this to the list of [...]

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