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Email marketers reporting breaches

Posted on February 10, 2010 by Dissent

Last week, this site reported that a vendor used by Breach Security was investigating a possible security breach involving contact names and email addresses used for marketing purposes. Now it appears that at least two email marketing vendors have recently reported breaches where the target may have been the database of names and email addresses….

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UK: NHS appraisal toolkit yanked offline

Posted on February 10, 2010 by Dissent

John Leyden reports: The UK’s Department of Health has taken the highly unusual step of suddenly taking a doctors’ appraisal website offline for three weeks over concerns it was vulnerable to hacking attacks. The NHS Appraisal Toolkit was taken down on Tuesday (9 February) and is not expected to return until 3 March. The site…

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Information Technology planning a revision to current security system

Posted on February 10, 2010 by Dissent

The student newspaper at Valdosta State University in Georgia has an article on how the university will be revising their IT security as a result of an audit last year. The story contains reference to a breach the university experienced last year that does not seem to have been reported in the media or the…

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Orange overshares in bcc blunder

Posted on February 10, 2010 by Dissent

Bill Ray reports: Orange accidentally shared the email addresses of more than 300 customers yesterday during a bid to find out what they think of the company. The email, passed on to us by several readers, suggests the recipient might like to reply with their thoughts about how customers keep in touch with the operator,…

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Update: BlueCross ID theft warnings top 500,000 and growing

Posted on February 10, 2010 by Dissent

Dave Flessner reports: Another 301,628 current and former members of BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee soon will be getting letters alerting them that their personal information was included on computer hard drives stolen from the insurance company last year. The Chattanooga-based health insurer announced today that the number of affected customers with potentially compromised identification and…

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Javelin Study Finds Identity Fraud Reached New High in 2009, but Consumers are Fighting Back

Posted on February 10, 2010 by Dissent

The 2010 Identity Fraud Survey Report – released today by Javelin Strategy & Research (http://www.javelinstrategy.com/) – found that the number of identity fraud victims in the United States increased 12 percent to 11.1 million adults in 2009, while the total annual fraud amount increased by 12.5 percent to $54 billion(1). The report found that protection…

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