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Unknown IP addresses access Lexmark personnel data

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2008-02-15 15:32:04 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...addresses, and Social Security numbers Breach Description Lexmark employees have been notified by the company that some of their senstive personal information was inadvertently posted on a company-owned file transfer site Reference URL WKYT Channel 27 News story Lexington Herald-Leader News story Report Credit Scott Sloan, Lexington...
 
Tags: lexmark, senstive personal information, personal information, lexmark employees, information, employees, data, unknown, lexmark international
 
 
 
 
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IP Addresses Are Considered Personally Identifiable Information in the EU

2008-01-22 15:39:31 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...addresses are now potentially considered personally identifiable information in the EU . Whoah! Im sure people can think of their own reasons this might be a big deal, but here is just a small smattering of stuff that I came up with Advertising: banner ads are almost always pulled from a third party. That third party gets things like...
 
Tags: information, addresses, identifiable information, people, content, googles business model, party, log analysis software, actual protection
 
 
 
 
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Gaping hole opened in Internet's trust-based BGP protocol

2008-08-29 09:12:49 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
Dan Kaminsky revealed his discovery of a DNS flaw that could be exploited to direct unwitting users to malicious web addresses,Now, practically on the heels of that announcement, a hacker team that presented at DEFCON has demonstrated how a fundamental design error in the Internet's border gateway protocol can be used to invisibly eavesdrop
 
Tags: border gateway protocol, fundamental design error, malicious web addresses, invisibly eavesdrop, internet, dns flaw, hacker team, dan kaminsky, direct
 
 
 
 
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Tax information exposed in trash

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2008-04-07 13:20:28 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...addresses, tax information, business transactions, and social insurance numbers Breach Description The private information of dozens of British Columbians was unearthed from a dumpster in downtown Vancouver and turned over to CTV News over the weekend Reference URL CTV News Report Credit David Kincaid and Jina You, CTV British Columbia ...
 
Tags: information, tax information, employees information, information security, information security guidance, guidance, information security professional, security, include names
 
 
 
 
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205 University of Wisconsin employees exposed

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2008-01-21 14:44:21 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...addresses and telephone numbers 205 of the persons affected had university identification number based on their Social Security numbers Breach Description Personal information belonging to University of Wisconsin at Madison faculty and staff members who made purchases from the DoIT "computer shop" was exposed on a publicly accessible web...
 
Tags: information, personal information, information security vulnerabilities, social, include social security, security, identifiable information serves, information security personnel, computer shop
 
 
 
 
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Long Island University notifies students of mailing error

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2008-02-12 09:53:50 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...addresses and Social Security Numbers Breach Description During the week of February 4, University officials discovered that some IRS 1098-T Tuition Statement forms for 2007, that had been delivered to the Post Office in what may have been defective mailers supplied to the University, were damaged by Post Office processing machinery. Student...
 
Tags: island university, university, post, post office personnel, students, post office, personal data, data, social security
 
 
 
 
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Oldham Primary Care Trust NHS loses two data sticks

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2008-01-11 17:15:40 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...addresses and dates of birth I'm not sure if this means that copies of assessments AND names, addresses and dates of birth OR just names, addresses and dates of birth Breach Description The Oldham Primary Care Trust NHS has issued a press release announcing the loss of two "data sticks" containing personal information belonging to clients...
 
Tags: information, information lost, personal information, financial information, medical information, information security, data, freephone information line, data sticks
 
 
 
 
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Intrusion at Stedmans.com exposes credit card information

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2008-03-23 00:37:57 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, credit card numbers, expiration dates, and card verification numbers Breach Description On February 27, 2008, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a Wolters Kluwer business was informed by the company that hosts one of our websites, www.stedmans.com, that personal information collected from consumers...
 
Tags: credit, information, credit card, credit cards, equifax credit, report credit, stedmans, information security professionals, personal information
 
 
 
 
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Laptop is stolen from Pfizer independent contractor

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2008-04-06 15:57:23 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...addresses, home and/or business and/or cell phone numbers, personal and/or business e-mail addresses, hotel loyalty program numbers and other travel and logistics information Breach Description We are writing to let you know that a laptop stolen from a Pfizer contractor's locked home on February 7, 2008 unfortunately contained some of your...
 
Tags: pfizer, 2nd pfizer breach, pfizer breach, evan pfizer, pfizer contractor, contractor, pfizer employees, laptop, time pfizer
 
 
 
 
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Spam - still hard to stomach

2008-04-07 11:46:45 by Stuart King in Stuart King's Security and Risk Management Blog
 
...addresses. Total tally is somewhere around 85% and 90% of incoming messages. For other organisations I know the statistics are even higher and teeter between 95% and 98% of all email. Yes - that means only 2% of incoming email for those companies is actually legitimate. Fortunately, we've got sophisticated tools in place that prevent the vast...
 
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