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Friday, July 06, 2007 9:40 AM

GAO: Data Breaches Rarely Lead To ID Theft

"Yep, breaches have no impact whatsoever. Trust me on this..." The Government Accountability Office released a report yesterday stating that it was difficult to link data breaches to confirmed cases of identity theft. The GAO also recommended that agencies
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Wednesday, July 04, 2007 1:23 PM

Fidelity Data Breach, or When Employees Go Bad

The breach of 2.3 million customer records by a former Fidelity National employee is a perfect example of how a person can do everything possible to protect themselves from being hit with identity theft or fraud, and STILL get endangered through no fault
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007 12:12 PM

Credit Bureaus Cause Identity Theft And Undermine Our Economy

Crossposted at Private Intelligence . Feel free to comment here or there . USA TODAY has a great (if unintentionally unflattering) look at the efforts by the bureaus' lobbyists to stop states from adopting credit freezes : When this trend began to gather
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Monday, June 25, 2007 12:44 PM

Does Posting Employees' Salaries Lead To Identity Theft?

Editor & Publisher has posted a few interesting stories recently about local media outlets posting--or pushing to post--the salaries of state employees online. There's a case in Michigan that's causing a lot of drama, and now there's a similar push
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Thursday, May 24, 2007 11:43 AM

Data Privacy And Guest Workers: It's Worse Than We Thought

As more information comes out about the new immigration proposal, it's becoming clear that the bill not only fails to comprehensively address the root problems of illegal immigration, but introduces a series of new risks to data security, privacy, and
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Wednesday, May 16, 2007 11:38 AM

IBM Contractor Loses Employee Data

And so it goes : Following the standard response to data breaches, IBM spokespersons said that there was no evidence the data had been misused, but said the company would provide a free year of credit monitoring to all affected individuals. I don't know
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Monday, May 07, 2007 4:09 PM

TJX Had No Security Whatsoever? "INCONCEIVABLE!"

For those who are interested, the evidence seems to point to wireless hacking, or "wardriving," as the cause of the massive TJ Maxx data breach . The TJX data encryption was nonexistent when transmitting payment data, enabling said enterprising cyber-thieves
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Wednesday, May 02, 2007 3:28 PM

MPI Wins Red Herring 100 Award

I'm happy to announce that MyPublicInfo is one of 100 winners of Red Herring's "Innovative and Disruptive Companies" award for 2007. You can see the full winners' list here. In the technology business circle, this is a big deal and I'm very happy to be
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Sunday, April 29, 2007 7:37 PM

This Month In Data Breaches

A new feature I'm incorporating: Each month we're going to sum up the big data breaches and exposures of customer information, as these are fast proving to be a cornerstone in the ever-growing identity theft and fraud empire. So who ended up with egg
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Thursday, April 26, 2007 9:54 AM

FTC "Proof Positive" Conference, Day 2

Work has been crazy lately, so I didn't get a chance to recap the second day of the "Proof Positive" conference. It wasn't as packed as the first, but here are some highlights: There was an excellent discussion about the differing attitudes of nations
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Monday, April 23, 2007 10:32 PM

FTC "Proof Positive" Conference, Day 1

Today I had the honor of attending the FTC's Proof Positive identity authentication/identity theft conference. If you are into these issues at all, this conference was like a live-action reenactment of "Challenge of the Superfriends"--everyone from Gartner
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Friday, April 20, 2007 10:12 AM

Defeating Dumpster Diving For Data

InformationWeek's Patricia Keefe lambasts companies who carelessly dispose of information : You might think that today, only someone living under a rock would be unacquainted with the perils of identity theft, and that most people - certainly your employees
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Tuesday, April 17, 2007 4:17 PM

FDIC Issues Guidance On Identity Theft

Originally posted at Private Intelligence . Feel free to comment here or there. Along with the FTC , the FDIC is the agency taking the lead on dealing with identity theft, approaching it as a matter of financial protection, especially since the agency
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Friday, April 13, 2007 2:11 PM

Measuring The Costs Of Data Breaches

If you're like me (that is to say, a huge nerd), you may wonder exactly how much a breach of personal data may cost. The information surrounding breaches is often so opaque and hard to follow ("We see no risk of identity theft, but we want you to check
Posted by DrIdentity | 2 Comments
Thursday, April 12, 2007 11:51 AM

Why Outsourcing Leads To Data Breaches, Part Deux

Techdirt has reported that ACS, the company responsible for losing data on 2.9 million people, apparently has a long and inglorious history of such mistakes: This company clearly has a problem with protecting personal information, but it doesn't appear
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