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Personal Las Cruces Public Schools Special Ed information posted online

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2008-05-09 10:02:19 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...information, including some personal identifying data Breach Description LAS CRUCES - The Las Cruces Public Schools has announced that confidential student and staff information, including some personal identifying data, was unintentionally posted on the Internet. Immediately upon learning that the data was posted, the district took steps to...
 
Tags: information, lcps, lcps employees, special education students, lcps press conference, special education, specific information, data security, data
 
 
 
 
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Confidential information sent to PinPay.net and SoftCard.biz is exposed

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2008-05-08 13:26:03 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...information Reference URL Merchant 911 Blog Report Credit Tom Mahoney, the Founder and Director of Merchant 911 Response From the online source cited above and my own cursory investigation Back in January, I had short email dialog with a Kip Long, who claimed to be one of the principles of a company called Softcard out of Huntington...
 
Tags: information, drivers license card, license card, card, free card, social security card, sensitive information, sensitive personal information, encrypt sensitive information
 
 
 
 
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Personal information from two Colorado mortgage companies found in dumpsters

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2008-05-07 22:20:50 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...information Breach Description ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- The Arapahoe County District Attorney's Office is advising anyone who has used Cove Creek Mortgage to watch out for identity theft after hundreds of mortgage files were dumped in a public trash bin over the weekend Reference URL Denver Channel 7 News Denver Channel 7 News (update Report...
 
Tags: mortgage files, numerous mortgage files, personal information, information, complete mortgage files, personal information poorly, files, cove creek mortgage, cove creek
 
 
 
 
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Adobe web portal exposes educational software users

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2008-05-07 16:31:31 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...information was stored on a server accessed via an Adobe website portal at a time when the server did not contain security or authentication procedures. The server was created to allow customers to upload information in order to enable Adobe to validate a customer's qualification to purchase certain education software Reference URL New...
 
Tags: adobe, information, personal information, information security crew, adobe website portal, adobe systems, upload information, security, adobe iswas
 
 
 
 
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Health care practices and UCSF patient records exposed

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2008-05-07 16:10:17 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...information included names, addresses, medical departments and some patient medical record numbers Breach Description 05-01) 17:22 PDT San Francisco -- Information on thousands of UCSF patients was accessible on the Internet for more than three months last year, a possible violation of federal privacy regulations that might have exposed the...
 
Tags: ucsf, ucsf patient, ucsf patients, patients, patient, sensitive information, information, patient information, ucsf medical center
 
 
 
 
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Card skimming at Lunardi's Supermarket

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2008-05-06 12:25:33 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...information onto cloned cards - any card with a magnetic stripe can be used - and made cash withdrawals from ATMs in Southern California Evan] Search Google for " Credit Card Encoder " and take your pick of various credit/debit card magnetic stripe readers/writers. Extreme Media has information on "Credit Card Hacking, ATM Hacking, Debit Card...
 
Tags: credit card reader, credit, credit card accounts, credit card, debit cards, cards, card, credit card encoder, bank debit cards
 
 
 
 
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Cornerstone Fitness for Women information found in discarded file cabinet

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2008-05-05 14:01:48 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...information Breach Description EDINBURG - A local company that operates several fitness centers across the region could be fined if investigators substantiate allegations it left clients' sensitive personal information in a trash bin Reference URL KRGV-TV Newschannel 5 The Monitor The Brownsville Herald Report Credit KRGV-TV Newschannel 5...
 
Tags: information, secure personal information, sensitive information, handle personal information, personal, credit card information, cornerstone fitness, cornerstone tells newschannel, newschannel
 
 
 
 
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Stolen General Internal Medicine laptop exposes nearly 12,000

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2008-05-05 12:17:36 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...information on poorly secured laptops? Why, why, why A medical practice in East Hempfield Township is contacting nearly 12,000 of its patients to notify them that a computer was stolen from the office April 17 We're just sick about this," said practice manager Lois Summers. "We know that the computer didn't contain the information of all...
 
Tags: internal medicine, office, doctors office, information, personal information, office staff, basic patient information, east hempfield township, physicians alliance office
 
 
 
 
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SCSU web server becomes spam server and exposes personal information

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2008-05-02 11:12:47 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...information pertaining to current students and alumni could have been vulnerable to access by unauthorized individuals Evan] As you will read further in this posting, the web server appears to have been compromised. I don't think "could have been vulnerable" is an accurate assessment. The information WAS vulnerable The information, including...
 
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Staten Island University Hospital notifies patients of December theft

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2008-05-01 15:09:25 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...information about 88,000 patients who have been treated at Staten Island University Hospital Reference URL Staten Island Advance Staten Island Advance (Video Report Credit Glenn Nyback, Staten Island Advance Response From the online sources cited above STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Computer equipment stolen from an administrative office in...