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Tuesday, July 17, 2007 12:15 PM

VA Secretary Jim Nicholson Resigns

From Talking Points Memo , via the AP: Veterans Affairs chief Jim Nicholson, who was forced to defend his agency's performance after revelations of shoddy health care at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, announced Tuesday he is resigning to return to the
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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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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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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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Tuesday, April 10, 2007 3:48 PM

Georgia Health Contractor Loses Data On 2.9 Million People

This is exactly how identity theft happens: A computer disk containing Social Security numbers and other sensitive personal data on 2.9 million residents of Georgia has been lost, according to the state's Department of Community Health. The CD, which
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Thursday, March 29, 2007 3:59 PM

TJ Maxx Data Breach Officially The Largest Ever

The Boston Globe reports that the TJX hack exposed 45.7 million credit and debit card numbers to possible identity theft and fraud: "It's the biggest card heist ever," said Avivah Litan of technology consulting firm Gartner Inc. " It's done considerable
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007 3:37 PM

"The Underground Economy" and Identity Theft

I was originally going to write about the different fraud services and how they work, but Symantec's recently-released 2006 threat report is worth discussing first. The report makes a particular note of the rise in sales of personally identifying information
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