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InternetNews May 23, 2006 Roy Mark |
VA Data Breach Stirs Washington In the second-largest data breach on record -- and the biggest Social Security numbers breach ever - the Department of Veterans Affairs disclosed Monday approximately 26.5 million veterans are at risk of identity theft.  |
InternetNews February 9, 2007 Roy Mark |
When Is a Breach a Breach? If you think there's hope for a national data breach notification law, consider this: Congress can't decide what a breach is. Really.  |
InternetNews March 17, 2006 Roy Mark |
Groups Slam Data Breach Notification Bill A U.S. House panel effort to write a national data breach disclosure law is running into fierce opposition by consumer groups calling the legislation the "worst data security bill ever."  |
InternetNews August 30, 2006 Clint Boulton |
AT&T to Offer Credit Checks After Data Hack AT&T will pay for credit monitoring services after 19,000 credit card numbers were stolen.  |
InternetNews June 26, 2006 Roy Mark |
Latest Breach Hits Navy The U.S. Navy is notifying as many as 28,000 in the latest government failure to protect personal data.  |
InternetNews June 23, 2006 Roy Mark |
Another Government Security Breach According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, unknown hackers may have illegally accessed a USDA database containing the names, Social Security numbers and photos of current and former agency employees.  |
InternetNews January 7, 2011 |
ITRC Seeks Full Data Breach Disclosure With major data breaches on the rise, the Identity Theft Resource Center is urging the formation of a centralized, searchable repository for the public to keep track of what institutions have seen their information compromised.  |
InternetNews March 22, 2007 Roy Mark |
Feinstein Charges Again on Data Breach Notification Bill A California senator says identity theft can't be stopped without strong congressional action.  |
InternetNews January 28, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
Monster Breach Shows Security Needs Rethinking Is corporate security fighting yesterday's war with last decade's weapons?  |
PC Magazine May 1, 2009 Matthew D. Sarrel |
Identity Theft: It's Out of Your Hands The most important thing you have is you, right? And online, you are your identity. If xyz.com doesn't value you enough to keep you safe, then does that company really deserve your business?  |
InternetNews August 10, 2006 Roy Mark |
Top Dem Blasts Latest VA Data Loss U.S. Senate minority leader Harry Reid wasted little time finding fault with the Veterans Administration's latest security breach, calling for the resignation of VA Secretary Jim Nicholson.  |
InternetNews August 4, 2006 Roy Mark |
Data Breaches And Congress A roundup of where federal data breach security laws stand.  |
PC Magazine July 10, 2003 Sebastian Rupley |
California's Two-Fisted Privacy Stance A new state identity-theft law actually extends far beyond the state.  |
InternetNews June 6, 2006 Roy Mark |
Veterans Seek Billions in Data Breach Suit Veterans groups file lawsuit against VA seeking damages for veterans exposed to identity theft.  |
InternetNews January 12, 2007 Roy Mark |
Data Breach Law Back in Senate Businesses and government agencies would have to notify consumers under certain circumstances of data breaches under legislation introduced by U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein.  |
InternetNews May 7, 2004 Ryan Naraine |
Analyst: Security Woes Add to Windows Cost Gartner's John Pescatore believes enterprises must include the cost of protecting Windows when considering alternatives.  |
Fast Company Pavithra Mohan |
Hackers Compromise T-Mobile Customer Data, Steal 15 Million Records In the past year, a staggering number of high-profile hacks have been carried out against various companies and organizations, including a large-scale attack that leaked the personal information of 22 million government employees.  |
InternetNews July 25, 2006 Roy Mark |
House Plans Data Breach Disclosure Vote Republicans pick weakest of several bills for full floor vote; Davis wants mandatory breach disclosure for federal agencies; Congress poised to create first national Internet database of sex offenders.  |
InternetNews August 8, 2006 Roy Mark |
More Missing Data at VA Unisys discloses desktop computer containing personal info on as many as 38,000 veterans is missing.  |
InternetNews June 11, 2010 |
Feds Reassessing Breach Notification Laws Data breaches small and large continue to plague consumers and businesses at a record pace and lawmakers at all levels of government are now considering more proactive legislation to help thwart identity theft.  |
U.S. Banker March 2009 Glen Fest |
The Emperor's Old Clothes Still Don't Fit With the potential to be the new poster child for data breach notoriety, Heartland Payment Systems of New Jersey responded quickly to its massive security breach.  |
CRM September 7, 2012 Dale Dabbs |
Protect Your Most Valuable Business Assets--Your Customers Optimal CRM incorporates data protection best practices to curtail identity theft.  |
InternetNews February 25, 2005 Erin Joyce |
Tech Needs to Opt-In For ID Protection It's up to the tech industry to improve consumers' data privacy because even if Congress acts, it won't have much of an effect.  |
InternetNews June 16, 2005 Roy Mark |
Senate Takes up Data Security Law FTC commissioners set to testify before panel that will enforce any new data privacy laws.  |
InternetNews June 1, 2007 Roy Mark |
ChoicePoint Settles With 44 States in Data Losses Data broker ChoicePoint agrees to pay $500,000 and to strengthen data protection measures.  |
InternetNews February 6, 2007 Roy Mark |
Concealment a Crime in Latest Data Breach Bill Additional legislation calls for criminal penalties for concealing breaches and consumer notification of 'significant' breaches.  |
InternetNews June 16, 2005 Roy Mark |
Congress Reacts to Breach Onslaught BJ's Wholesale Club settles lax data protection charges while FDIC admits to data breach.  |
InternetNews March 30, 2006 Roy Mark |
Data-Breach Disclosure Bill Passes House Panel A House panel approved a bill requiring data brokers to inform consumers of breaches when reasonable risk of ID theft exists.  |
InternetNews April 7, 2008 Judy Mottl |
Storage: The New Frontier in Data Protection It's no longer all about the perimeter, says NetApp's Tim Russell at Storage Network World: Instead, IT needs to focus on storage as costs and regulations mount.  |
InternetNews May 6, 2005 Tim Gray |
How Much is Too Much Data Loss? Congress returned this week to a burgeoning issue likely to concern the financial health of millions of Americans: What can be done about skyrocketing incidents of identity theft and data loss?  |
InternetNews February 2, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
Study: Negligence Causes Most Data Breaches A just-released study concludes that the cost of data breaches to businesses is rising from both internal negligence and the actions of third parties.  |
InternetNews September 24, 2010 |
FTC Issuing Slim Payments to ChoicePoint Victims Following a settlement stemming from the latest breach from data integrator ChoicePoint, the Federal Trade Commission is distributing paltry compensation to the victims.  |
InternetNews May 26, 2006 Clint Boulton |
Sacred Heart Data Hacked Sacred Heart University became the latest school to fall victim to a computer hack, which exposed the personal information of as many as 135,000 students and alumni.  |
InternetNews September 23, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner |
Credit Companies Tighten Encryption Equifax, Experian and TransUnion create a new standard to securing sensitive customer data.  |
Bank Technology News March 2009 Rebecca Sausner |
Heartland's Lonely Quest For Reform Heartland Payment Systems deals with perhaps the largest data breach ever.  |
InternetNews April 16, 2010 |
Mississippi Latest to OK Data Breach Notice Law Businesses in the state must now immediately notify customers when their personal information has been exposed.  |
InternetNews June 23, 2005 Roy Mark |
Confidence in E-Commerce Waning Gartner survey shows one of out three Internet users buying less online, largely because of concerns over data security.  |
InternetNews July 10, 2007 Roy Mark |
Many Breaches, Few ID Thefts Data breaches are frequent, but evidence of actual identity theft resulting from the breaches is limited, according to a new report by the General Accountability Office.  |
CIO January 2007 |
Data Breaches Cost You More Data breaches continue to become more expensive.  |
InternetNews July 20, 2005 Tim Gray |
Hackers Head to School in Droves Universities appear to be the new favorite target of hackers, as the University of Southern California becomes the latest to get hit.  |
Insurance & Technology May 18, 2004 Paul McDougall |
Laptop Theft Compromises Data GMAC Financial Services customers have personal data stolen.  |
InternetNews November 28, 2007 Andy Patrizio |
Report Details Real Costs of Data Breaches Some experts say breaches aren't just an embarrassment to your IT department: They're a leech on the bottom line.  |
InternetNews August 7, 2006 Roy Mark |
Teens Charged in VA Laptop Theft Maryland police arrested two teenagers Friday morning at a suburban Maryland McDonald's and charged them with the May theft of a Veterans Administration's laptop that resulted in the largest data breach in federal government history.  |
InternetNews June 30, 2006 Roy Mark |
FBI Recovers Stolen VA Laptop Veterans Administration Secretary James Nicholson said Thursday his agency's infamous stolen laptop containing the personal records of 26.5 million veterans has been recovered.  |
InternetNews July 13, 2009 |
Report: 85 Percent of U.S. Businesses Breached A new report has a recommendation for organizations that fear a breach and the reporting requirements that go with it.  |
InternetNews March 9, 2011 |
Data Breach Recovery Getting More Expensive Report says the cost enterprises have to pay to fix security and restore operations after a data breach continue to grow.  |
Information Today March 2006 Phillip Britt |
The Encryption Code While encryption can protect data from hackers and companies from security breaches, many companies have yet to adopt this type of data protection.  |
InternetNews September 23, 2005 Roy Mark |
Senate Turns Attention to Data Privacy The Senate Judiciary Committee expects to vote next week on legislation making it a crime for data brokers to conceal a security breach involving personal data and increasing penalties for computer fraud when the act involves personal data.  |
InternetNews June 25, 2010 |
Anthem Blue Cross Victim of Data Breach More than 230,000 Social Security numbers and medical records are accidentally exposed due to some sloppy programming.  |
InternetNews May 11, 2006 Roy Mark |
Bush Goes After ID Theft on National Level President Bush signed an executive order Wednesday afternoon creating a national Identity Theft Task Force... FTC circumspect on national data breach disclosure law... Chertoff says interoperability problems are jurisdictional, not technological...  |