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Soldiers’ Data Still Being Downloaded Overseas, Firm Says

Posted on October 2, 2009 by Dissent

Ellen Nakashima reports: The personal data of tens of thousands of U.S. soldiers — including those in the Special Forces — continue to be downloaded by unauthorized computer users in countries such as China and Pakistan, despite Army assurances that it would try to fix the problem, according to a private firm that monitors cybersecurity….

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Probe Targets Archives’ Handling of Data on 70 Million Vets

Posted on October 1, 2009 by Dissent

Ryan Singel reports: The inspector general of the National Archives and Records Administration is investigating a potential data breach of tens of million of records about U.S. military veterans, after the agency sent a defective hard drive back to its vendor for repair and recycling without first destroying the data. At issue is a hard…

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Oops! Mizzou sells phones without wiping memory

Posted on October 1, 2009 by Dissent

Jim Salter reports: Mike Bellman got more than he bargained for when he purchased a box of old cell phones from the University of Missouri athletics department. Bellman bought the cell phones earlier this year at a university surplus sale with the intent of reselling them for parts. He paid $190 for 25 old cell…

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Update: NM agencies investigate found files

Posted on September 30, 2009 by Dissent

As an update to an incident previously reported, Gerald Garner Jr. reports: After learning that a handful of sensitive documents had been “discarded” in a local dumpster, Socorro County and county housing authority officials launched an investigation into the matter. In a joint agency press release — issued Monday, Sept. 28 — officials contend the…

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File Cabinet Purchase Leads To Identity Theft Concerns

Posted on September 28, 2009 by Dissent

Some former and current Panola School District, Oklahoma employees are learning that some of their employment records from 1998 and 1999, including W-2’s, were in file cabinets sold to the public. Now the people who bought the cabinets are declining to turn the records over to the school district without a court order and are…

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Judge orders Google to deactivate user’s Gmail account, but wait, there’s more…

Posted on September 26, 2009 by Dissent

Wendy Davis reports that in the Rocky Mountain Bank case previously covered here: In a highly unusual move, a federal judge has ordered Google to deactivate the email account of a user who was mistakenly sent confidential financial information by a bank. The order, issued Wednesday by U.S. District Court Judge James Ware in the…

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