Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont has responded to the massive loss of data by the Educational Credit Management Corporation by vowing to hold Congressional hearings and introduce new legislation to better protect personal information. Although the Senator has repeatedly introduced a data breach notification bill in past sessions of Congress, the bill became outdated after…
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Stolen council laptops contained sensitive information on pupils
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has found Warwickshire County Council in breach of the Data Protection Act (DPA) following the theft of two laptops and the loss of a memory stick. The laptops, which were unencrypted and not physically secured or locked away, were stolen from council offices. They held sensitive personal information relating to…
Three Rivers reports possible data breach
Jenna Cho reports: Three Rivers Community College may have suffered a security breach due to unauthorized access to its computer network, according to information on its Web site Tuesday. A notice on the college’s site says: Dear Sir or Madam, During a recent review of computers at Three Rivers Community College, a potential breach in…
OIG Audit: The DOJ’s efforts to combat identity theft
Although identity theft is a significant public concern, a new audit report by the U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General indicates that it has become less of a priority instead of more of one over the past few years. Noting that the President’s Identity Theft Task Force (created in May 2006 by…
(update) ECMC breach due to failure to adhere to policies
Small note for those who look for official disclosure and notification letters: the notification sent by the Educational Credit Management Corp (ECMC) to New Hampshire with a copy of its notification to those affected is now available online (pdf). In other news on the breach, Kelly Jackson Higgins of Dark Reading points out that the…
Student loan company: Data on 3.3M people stolen
From the Associated Press: A company that guarantees federal student loans said Friday that personal data on about 3.3 million people nationwide has been stolen from its headquarters in Minnesota. Educational Credit Management Corp. said the data included names, addresses, Social Security numbers and dates of birth of borrowers, but no financial or bank account…