Groups: Record data breaches in 2007
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The loss or theft of personal data such as credit card and Social Security numbers soared to unprecedented levels in 2007, and the trend isn't expected to turn around anytime soon as hackers stay a step ahead of security and laptops disappear with sensitive information.
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The University of California, Los Angeles, reports one or more computer hackers have accessed a database containing the personal information of 800,000 people.  The school said the central campus database was accessed between October 2005 and Nov.
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A computer hacker apparently broke into a database, leaving 32,000 people uncertain whether their finances or identities might be compromised.
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Graceful breakup announcements, photogenic small animals, outrageous slurs: a look back at 2007.
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Rich Baich knows about data theft. Back in 2005, Baich was where he is now: at the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco, a published author and star in the tight-knit community of information security experts. Then the roof fell in as Baich's employer, data broker ChoicePoint, revealed that it had unwittingly allowed identity thieves posing as legitimate customers to make off with the financial records of more than 163,000 consumers.
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When data breach investigator Bryan Sartin gets a call to check into an incident involving customer records loss at a retailer, he knows that the situation most likely involves information that has been lifted from a company's point-of-sale systems.
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Increasing concerns about identity theft are driving a growing number of counties to start redacting personal data from public records on their Web sites. But the work remains challenging.
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How bad is the Monster.com data breach? Bad enough. Did the crooks get their hooks in deep? Remarkably deep. Gregg Keizer has the details on what has gone wrong so far in the Infostealer.Monstres attack.
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ID theft milestone reached The total number of US customer records compromised as a result of security blunders has hit the 100m milestone.â¦
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The breach at TJX Companies occurred almost a full-year earlier than first thought -- and compromised more payment card data than previously believed, the company said.
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Data from three threat reports show botnets outpacing denial-of-service attacks in the first half of 2007.
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Thousands of credit card numbers and other personal data may have been compromised.
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Administaff, a provider of human resources services, is notifying 159,000 former and current workers that personal data about them was on a laptop reported missing on Oct. 3. The data was unencrypted.
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More than 1,700 state workers recently learned that some of their personal information, including their names and Social Security numbers, had been inadvertently posted on the Internet.
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Data on more than 100 million U.S. consumers has been compromised in the past two years, according to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse.
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The loss or theft of personal data such as credit card and Social Security numbers soared to unprecedented levels in 2007, and the trend isnât expected to turn around anytime soon.
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Companies disclosed a flurry of new security breaches, highlighting the need for IT managers to focus more on securing their data -- not just their corporate networks.