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Employee snooping in IRS database: it’s like looking people up on Google or Facebook – defense attorney

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Dissent

Are cases of access in excess of authorization involving federal employees snooping in databases treated too lightly? Levi Pulkkinen reports on a case where some may think that a federal employee who misused access to the IRS database got off too lightly: An IRS worker accused of using the agency’s service database to snoop on her…

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Rubio’s Warns Shareholders And Workers Compensation Claimants That Their Data Were Stolen From Auditor’s Car

Posted on April 21, 2012 by Dissent

If you follow me on Twitter (@pogowasright) or follow @datalossdb, you’ll know that over the past few months, I’ve started just sending some items directly into the database without reporting them on this blog.  A few nights ago, I added a bunch to the database – some of which I tweeted – after discovering that…

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Case Western Reserve notifies 600 alumni of data breach involving Social Security numbers

Posted on April 10, 2012 by Dissent

Earlier today, a breach report was submitted to DataLossDB.org involving Case Western Reserve University in Ohio.  The April 4th notice, submitted by one of those affected, indicated that 600 people had names and Social Security numbers on two laptops that had been stolen. Although the university is offering affected individuals free identity theft protection services,…

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Baylor Law Screw-Up Reveals Personal Data of Entire Admitted Class: Data That We’ve Got

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Dissent

Elie Mystal writes: There are data breaches, and then there are data dummies. The people at Baylor Law seem to be in the latter category. Nobody was trying to steal the personal information of the admitted students at Baylor Law. But a screw-up by someone at the school resulted in all of the personal information of the admitted…

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Global Payments confirms data breach (Update 2)

Posted on March 30, 2012 by Dissent

After being named by the Wall Street Journal earlier today, Global Payments Inc. has issued a press release about the breach reported earlier today by Brian Krebs: Global Payments Inc, a leader in payment processing services, announced it identified and self-reported unauthorized access into a portion of its processing system. In early March 2012, the…

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MasterCard, VISA Warn of Processor Breach

Posted on March 30, 2012 by Dissent

Brian Krebs reports: VISA and MasterCard are alerting banks across the country about a recent major breach at a U.S.-based credit card processor. Sources in the financial sector are calling the breach “massive,” and say it may involve more than 10 million compromised card numbers. Read more on KrebsonSecurity. As always, Brian is all over…

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