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Veterans Affairs to pay $20 million settlement after massive 2006 data breach

January 28, 2009 – 12:40 pm

Veterans affected by the titanic data breach at the Department of Veterans Affairs in 2006 will receive $20 million in a settlement reached yesterday. The data breach exposed the personal information of 28 million former and current service members.

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University of Florida data breaches; LifeLock needed because “Life is stressful enough.”

November 17, 2008 – 9:17 am

University of Florida College of Dentistry has notified nearly all of 344,482 current and former dental patients affected by a data breach.
College employees were upgrading a server October 3 when they discovered that an unauthorized user had accessed the data and remotely installed software. The hacker was able to access patients’ names, addresses, birthdates and [...]

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Portland VA clinic data breach; LifeLock helps to provide data breach protection

November 5, 2008 – 12:04 pm

The Veterans Affairs Medical Clinic in Portland, OR posted personal information of at least 1,600 patients on a public website. Included in the exposed information was the Social Security numbers of approximately 700 patients.
Information of patients from other VA clinics was also posted, but the total number of patients affected isn’t known, according to the [...]

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