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(update) Data breach potentially exposes 250 Clark College students’ information

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Dissent

More on an incident mentioned previously on this blog from Ian Larson in The Oregonian: A cyberattack last week may have exposed the personal information, including the names and student identification numbers, of 250 Clark College students. Nine students’ social security numbers were also briefly exposed in the data breach. The college quickly secured its computer systems…

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UK: Banks face more privacy complaints from customers than any other group

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Dissent

Gerri Peev: Banks have attracted more customer complaints than any other group over allegations of mishandling sensitive information, the privacy watchdog reveals today. Lenders routinely lost, released or wrongly recorded personal data, the Information Commissioner warned in his annual report which detailed 603 complaints. But the true scale of privacy and data breaches could be…

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AU: Telstra mail bungle breached Privacy Act

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Dissent

Josh Taylor reports: Telstra breached the Privacy Act by sending out tens of thousands of letters to the wrong addresses, according to the Australian Privacy Commissioner, which led to the personal information of about 60,300 Telstra customers being sent to the wrong people. In October last year, the Australian Communications and Media Authority and the…

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MI: Laptop missing from Hurley Medical Center contained patient data

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Dissent

The other day they were claiming that there was no personal data involved, so I didn’t even mention the incident on my blogs.  What a difference a day makes. Matt Franklin reports: Personal information of almost 2,000 Hurley Medical Center patients may be in the wrong hands this afternoon because the hospital says it is…

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Washington Post reports breach of job seeker data (updated)

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Dissent

Elinor Mills reports: About 1.27 million user IDs and email addresses belonging to people looking for employment on The Washington Post jobs website were affected by a data breach in June, the newspaper has said. “We discovered that an unauthorised third party attacked our Jobs website and was able to obtain access to certain user…

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AL: Patient data stolen from Troy Regional Medical Center used in tax refund fraud scheme

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Dissent

A press release dated July 6 – admirably prominently posted from the medical center’s home page – says: TROY, Ala. (July 6, 2011) – Troy Regional Medical Center (TRMC) has notified certain patients of a data theft incident involving unauthorized access and removal of some of their personal information. TRMC is conducting a comprehensive investigation into…

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