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Identity Theft Reported by Households, 2005-2010

Posted on December 2, 2011 by Dissent

U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics Report NCJ 236245 by Lynn Langton, BJS Statistician In 2010, 7.0% of households in the United States, or about 8.6 million households, had at least one member age 12 or older who experienced one or more types of identity theft victimization (figure 1). This percentage was similar to the 7.3%…

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What They Didn’t Know: Big Brother Watch report on breaches highlights why we need mandatory disclosure

Posted on November 23, 2011 by Dissent

Mainstream media in the U.K. have picked up on a new report based on data obtained under freedom of information requests by Big Brother Watch (BBW).  The Guardian reports, ” Councils breached personal data 1,035 times over three years,” while BBC’s headline is “Personal data ‘lost by 132 councils,” and eWeek’s headline is  “132 Councils Named And…

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Maybe we should prohibit school districts from maintaining electronic databases

Posted on November 21, 2011 by Dissent

Yes, I know that idea would send us back in time, but yet another ridiculous data breach involving a public school’s system being hacked by students has me pulling my hair out and wishing for more regulation or something.  WXPI in Pennsylvania reports: Investigators said the hacking began in May on two students’ home computers….

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Inspector General Tells National Credit Union Administration to Beef Up Security and Privacy Protections

Posted on November 21, 2011 by Dissent

The National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) is the United States independent federal agency that supervises and charters federal credit unions. Claude R. Marx reports: The NCUA needs to do a more thorough review of how it protects the privacy of its computer users and data, according to a report by the agency’s Office of Inspector…

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Ca: ‘Insider’ government data breaches soaring

Posted on November 15, 2011 by Dissent

Emily Chung reports: The proportion of “insider” internet security breaches caused by employees are rising quickly within Canadian government departments and agencies, a new study shows. Insider breaches in the government sector grew by 28 per cent between 2010 and 2011 and are up 68 per cent since 2008, the fourth annual Telus-Rotman joint study…

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Healthcare most breached industry in 2011? Not by my analyses.

Posted on November 15, 2011 by Dissent

The following was originally posted to PHIprivacy.net. The carousel image for this post reflects 2011 statistics from DataLossDB and is used with permission. Note that healthcare sector breaches account for a smaller percentage of total breaches reported in 2011 compared to 2010 while business sector breaches account for a larger percentage of total breaches compared to…

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