An overwhelming majority of Americans believe that their personal online actions can help make the greater online world safer for everyone, including their friends, family, country, and the larger global community of Internet users, a national survey of U.S. adults by the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) and the Anti-Phishing Working Group n(APWG) finds. […]…
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20 Million Americans Have Multiple Social Security Numbers Associated With Their Name
More than 20 million Americans have multiple Social Security numbers (SSNs) associated with their name in commercial records according to a new study announced today from ID Analytics, Inc., a leader in consumer risk management. The study also found that rather than serving as a unique identifier, more than 40 million SSNs are associated with…
Ca: Medical records left behind
Brendan Wedley reports: More than 25,000 medical records containing personal information and about 70 computer hard drives were left behind at the former St. Joseph’s hospital when Peterborough Regional Health Centre (PRHC) sold the site in October last year, the hospital revealed on Thursday. The records are what hospital officials call working documents, not patient…
Laptop stolen from PCC employee’s car contained SSN of 2,900 unemployed Oregonians
A car owned by an employee of Portland Community College was broken into on Thursday, Aug 5. Among the stolen items was a data-storage device containing the names and Social Security numbers of an estimated 2,900 Multnomah County participants in the Oregon Food Stamp Employment Transition Program, also known as OFSET. The employee had been…
Ben & Jerry’s security glitch exposes personal details
Claire Woffenden reports: Ice cream company Ben & Jerry’s has apologised after an embarrassing security blunder exposed the names and addresses of more than 2,500 online customers. The mistake was discovered by Web User reader Julee de Jong after a simple search for her name on search engine Google. One of the top results for…
Insider wrongdoing at StoresOnline just one of breach reports to Maryland
The Maryland Attorney General’s Office received 14 breach reports in April. Three of them revealed breaches not previously covered in the media or on this site, and a few others provided new numbers or details on breaches we already knew about. Newly revealed: Utah-based StoresOnline reported that an employee misused the credit card information of…