UTD Issues Identity Theft Warning: Network Hacker May Have Exposed Personal Data for 5,000 People
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By Holly K. Hacker, The Dallas Morning News  Dec. 13--A computer network attack at the University of Texas at Dallas may have exposed Social Security numbers and other personal information for 5,000 current and former students, faculty and others, campus officials said Tuesday.
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By RANDY KENNER,  kenner@knews.com  The University of Tennessee mailed out letters Thursday to nearly 36,000 people whose personal information was on a UT computer accessed by a hacker for several months beginning last August.
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A hacker has infiltrated a  University of California, Los Angeles database containing the  personal information on 800,000 people, the school said on  Tuesday, in one of the worst computer breaches ever at a U.S.  university.
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'Identity reconstruction' still possible Large databases do not adequately protect sensitive personal information, according to a statistics professor in the US, who says that individuals can still be identified despite attempts to anonymise them.â¦
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D'oh Hackers might have gained access to the credit card details and personal information of up to 19,000 people after breaking into AT&amp;T's online store last weekend, the US telecoms giant said on Tuesday.â¦
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A laptop containing the personal details of 600,000 new and prospective military recruits has been stolen, the Ministry of Defense said Friday, the latest in a series of government blunders over data.
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By Randy Ludlow, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Sep. 6--An Ohio University consultant has recovered interview notes and other documents behind its investigation of hacker thefts of personal data from campus computers.
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More than 3.5 million U.S. adults lost money to phishing scams and online identity theft in the 12-month period that ended in August, a 57% increase over the previous year.
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Names, addresses, telephone and Social Security numbers, and the birth dates of as many as 1.4 million Californians, may have been stolen by the hackers who broke into a university computer in August.
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The personal details of up to 600,000 people were lost when a Royal Navy officer's laptop was stolen in the latest embarrassment to hit British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
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Authorities are trying to determine how a hacker gained access to a University of California computer that contained personal information for more than 1 million people, many of them recipients of an assistance program for the elderly.
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The university is the latest among a growing list of companies, colleges and government agencies to reveal that its computer security had been breached.
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California university officials have warned nearly 600,000 students and faculty that they might be exposed to identity theft following incidents where computer hard drives loaded with their private information were lost or hacked into.    Since January, at least 580,000 people who had personal information about them stored in university computers received warnings they might be at risk...
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Laptop stolen from Royal Navy officer contained passport and bank details of 600,000 people
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Hackers broke into a University of Virginia database that included Social Security numbers and other personal information about faculty members.
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The growing number of login names web users need puts privacy at risk, says a UN report.
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Personal information on more than 5,700 current and former faculty members at the University of Virginia may have been stolen by hackers who accessed the data multiple times over a period of almost two years.