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Blaming the discoverer of a breach probably not a wise move

Posted on May 20, 2013 by Dissent

More on the Lifeline breach involving TerraCom and its affiliate YourTel America: Scripps Howard News Service has its report on the breach here, and has also published a companion piece with video of how they discovered the breach. As reported previously, Scripps reports that when notified of the leak, TerraCom had accused Scripps of accessing…

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Who – if anyone – is responsible for notifying victims of some breaches?

Posted on May 18, 2013 by Dissent

I’ve blogged a number of times about how although law enforcement may uncover breaches or data theft, the victims often do not get notified in a timely fashion – if at all.  Here are just a few scenarios where no one may notify people whose data have been stolen: Law enforcement discovers a handwritten list…

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Savanna police report numerous debit and credit card fraud reports

Posted on May 18, 2013 by Dissent

Now what? Is this another big merchant breach or one we already knew about? Thomas Geyer reports: Police in Savanna, Ill., have received numerous reports of debit and credit card fraud from residents and called in the U.S. Secret Service for assistance. Savanna Police Chief Michael Moon said  all of the banks and credit unions…

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FBI, city of Akron investigating hacker attack that compromised identities of 8,000 taxpayers

Posted on May 17, 2013 by Dissent

Jenn Strathman reports: Cyber hackers from Turkey hacked into the city of Akron’s website and replaced city messages with politically-motivated ones on Thursday. Also, nearly 8,000 taxpayers had their personal information stolen including their names, addresses, and social security numbers. I don’t know about you, but I would have lead with the theft of the…

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TerraCom notifies 150,000 Lifeline applicants after breach

Posted on May 16, 2013 by Dissent

Here’s a breach I didn’t see in the media but first learned of from the Wisconsin Office of Privacy Protection. According to that office, on April 26, 2013, TerraCom, a wireless learned of a security breach involving unauthorized access to personal data and downloaded files related to over 150,000 individuals. The data was stored on…

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Nuix and EDRM republish Enron data set cleansed of more than 10,000 items containing private, health and financial information

Posted on May 16, 2013 by Dissent

A follow-up to an issue recently raised by BeyondRecognition.net and discussed on this blog. SAN FRANCISCO, CA – May 15, 2013 — Nuix, a worldwide provider of information management technologies, and EDRM, the leading standards organization for the eDiscovery and information governance market, have today republished the EDRM Enron PST Data Set after cleansing it of private,…

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