- IDG News Service - A break-in one evening last October at a shopping mall in Chattanooga, Tennessee, is proving expensive for BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee. Over the past five months, the company has employed (continue reading...)
- Posted by Dancho Danchev @ 5:27 pm With millions of personal records and payment card information stolen on a regular basis, several recently released reports independently confirm some of the main sources (continue reading...)
- The University of Texas Medical Branch has mailed letters notifying 1,200 patients that sensitive information about them had been available to a woman charged with identity theft in an unrelated case. Officials sent out (continue reading...)
- Around 53 West Virginia University students’ personal information was available to others following an "operational error" during a routine update of tax information Jan. 15. The students’ 1098-T forms, which include their Social Security (continue reading...)
- A Humboldt State University computer infected with a virus may have exposed the personal information of 3,500 people employed by the school between 2002 and 2006. HSU spokesman Paul Mann said no employees or (continue reading...)
- Having worked in the banking industry for years, Elida Cruz routinely assured her clients that their personal information would remain confidential. So she was understandably horrified Thursday to learn that paperwork carrying her own (continue reading...)
- The confidential records of millions of British gamblers who bet with top bookmaker Ladbrokes have been offered for sale to The Mail on Sunday. The huge data theft is now at the centre of (continue reading...)
- Laptops containing sensitive records belonging to thousands of Ontario teachers have been stolen, CBC News has learned. The three laptops contained names, addresses, birth dates and social insurance numbers of some 8,600 teachers, most (continue reading...)
- The theft of a laptop computer from a medical office has put hundreds of people at a greater risk of identity theft. On Friday, the Methodist Hospital notified 689 people that someone stole a (continue reading...)
- Why did it take the Commerce Department so long to notify employees that their personal information, including Social Security numbers, had been let loose on the Internet? On Monday, employees were informed by letters (continue reading...)
- UC San Francisco said Wednesday that a laptop containing files with information on 4,400 patients was stolen from a UCSF School of Medicine employee on or about November 30. The university said Jan. 27 (continue reading...)
- One of the immediate questions about the security leak the state announced today is why did the accounting firm learn about it in early December and reveal it to the state last week? PricewaterhouseCoopers (continue reading...)
- Personal information for 250,000 Clinton administration staff and White House visitors sent to the National Archives was compromised after a computer hard drive containing confidential material disappeared nearly a year ago, RollCall.com reported Wednesday. (continue reading...)
- The cost of a data breach increased last year to $204 per compromised customer record, according to the Ponemon Institute's annual study. The average total cost of a data breach rose from $6.65 million in (continue reading...)
- Pavel Valkovich of Sherman Oaks, CA has pleaded guilty to solicitation of murder, admitting that he attempted to hire hitmen to kill witnesses working with Federal authorities in their investigation of Valkovich's ID theft (continue reading...)
- Sloppy handling of confidential records by a state agency in Salem, Oregon left people's names, Social Security numbers, ages and addresses exposed in an open recycling (continue reading...)
- A Milwaukee hospital is warning thousands of its patients that personal information about them may have been stolen.The theft happened last month (continue reading...)
- Verity Trustees has had its wrist slapped by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) after a laptop was stolen containing data on 110,000 people.The laptop was taken from the locked server (continue reading...)
- A Penn State professor's grade book from 2001 to 2004 that contained 303 students' social security numbers, among other personal information, was found to be compromised by (continue reading...)
- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEPR Log (Press Release) Nov 23, 2009 Secret Service Investigation and Class Action Lawsuit Cast Shadow Over Radiant Systems and Louisiana DistributorAtlanta Company and Distributor Accused of Negligence in Widespread Identity Theft at (continue reading...)