Company X's shoestring budget caused data breach
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Clearly, senior executives at Company X had no idea what had happened to its IT department. Who did it? How did they get in? For how long? What could they see? Clueless.
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Beta search app creates vulnerabilities that may threaten your data's   security.
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Over five months, Gary Min stole $400 million worth of proprietary information from a DuPont database. But he wasn't caught until after he left the company for a rival firm.
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By now, the perils of securing online data with little more than user names and passwords should be well known. Monster.com learned that lesson late and the hard way, prompting this week's disclosure that the Web jobs board will spend millions of dollars to improve its security.
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(InfoWorld) - A stolen laptop at The Boeing Co. has pushed a widely watched tally of U.S. data breach victims past the 100 million mark. On Tuesday, Boeing disclosed that files containing Social Security numbers, names and home addresses of 382,000 current and former employees were compromised in early December when an unencrypted laptop was stolen from an employee's car. That disclosure pushed the total number of data breach victims on the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse Web site to 100,152,801, said Beth Givens, director of the consumer advocacy group. Privacy Rights Clearinghouse has been tracking data breaches since February 2005, whenÂ ChoicePoint disclosedÂ that thieves had stolen information on 163,000 victims from the company's database. The ChoicePoint incident was remarkable because although the data broker was obligated to disclose the theft to victims living in California -- the only state with a beach notification law on the books -- it decided to notify everyone, Givens said. "That was the first time, to the best of our knowledge, that a breached entity decided to disclose the event to individuals nationwide," she said. "That was a watershed event," she added, "because other entities that had experienced breaches started disclosing the situation to individuals nationwide" Since the ChoicePoint incident, data security has been in the spotlight, andÂ breaches at the U.S. Department of Veteran's AffairsÂ and, most recently, Boeing and theÂ University of California-Los Angeles, have received national attention. Givens believes that the actual number of names that have been compromised since ChoicePoint is probably much higher than her tally. "I think the number 100 million is largely a fictional number, but what it really indicates is that this is a very significant problem," she said. She couldn't say whether all the publicity has made consumers any more secure. "It's quite obvious from the listing that we've compiled that we're in a very leaky boat when it comes to data security," she said. "I don't think that consumers can feel confident about the protection that their personal information receives."
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The online store of Major League Soccer was hit by a series of SQL injection attacks, compromising the personal data of an unspecified number of shoppers.
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More than 94 million accounts were affected in the theft of personal data from TJX Cos. , a banking group alleged in court filings, more than twice as many accounts as the Framingham retailer has said were affected in what was already the largest data breach in history.
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The records of nearly 2.3 million consumers have been exposed after an employee of a Fidelity National Information Services subsidiary stole the information and then proceeded to sell it to a data broker.
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The firm that makes hardware for much of the net's backbone releases patches for security holes in its products.
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Layered Technologies, a Texas-based server hosting company, told customers this week that hackers had broken into its support database and stolen as many as 6,000 client records.
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A credit union in Massachusetts has sent TJX an invoice for $590,000 to cover the monetary costs and reputational damage that the financial institution says it incurred as a result of the data breach disclosed by the retailer in January.
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is looking for victims of a data breach at ChoicePoint announced in early 2005.
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Nothing to see here, please move along Three laptops, containing the payroll and pension details of more than 15,000 Met Police officers, have been nicked from the offices of LogicaCMG, the outsourcing firm that handles the payments. It's unclear whether or not sensitive details stored on the laptops were encrypted even though the Met Police describe the risk of identity posed by the loss of the laptops as "minimal", the BBC reports.â¦
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All too familiar sinking feelings A Dell customer is complaining to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) after a serious data breach led to his confidential details being posted to the wrong address.â¦
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Hackers penetrate the network of a consumer data company and make off with thousands of credit reports, Social Security numbers and other sensitive information.
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In July Pfizer discovered a data breach that took place last year, informed employees only recently.
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Not keeping customer information secure Mobile operator Orange has breached the Data Protection Act's security requirements and home shopping giant Littlewoods has breached the Act's marketing rules, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has ruled.â¦