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The Breach Blog November Review

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2007-12-04 13:55:55 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Breach The Breach Blog Month in Review November, 2007 Thirty-nine (39) breaches were reported on the The Breach Blog during the month of November, 2007 compared with thirty-five (35) during the month of October. November ranks second to September (44) in the number of breaches reported in a month, since The Breach Blog began compiling...
 
Tags: breach, breach report, popular breach type, breach blog month, breach blog, november, security breach, single breach, breach offender
 
 
 
 
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Visa and Mastercard warn of breach at "major retailer"

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2008-03-17 15:27:42 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Breach Date Reported 3/17/08 Organization unnamed "major retailer Update pending as details become available Contractor/Consultant/Branch Unknown Victims consumers in Massachusetts and northern New England states Number Affected MBA estimates that hundreds of thousands MBA is the Massachusetts Bankers Association which represents...
 
Tags: breach, breach description, security breach, retail data breach, major retailer, retailer, data, major breach, data breach
 
 
 
 
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Picking Apart The Hannaford Breach- What Might Have Happened

2008-03-18 17:03:45 by rmogull in securosis.com
 
...breach with 4.2 million credit cards exposed. Hannaford had published an FAQ for their customers . Odds are it will be months until we find out what really happened, but Im going to speculate anyway, pick apart the press coverage and FAQ, and see if we can learn something from this now As usual, the information released is incomplete and...
 
Tags: million credit cards, cards, credit, credit card, customer credit, credit card fraud, identifiable customer information, information, credit card information
 
 
 
 
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KimsCrafts e-commerce breach affects 4,500

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2007-12-14 16:08:39 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Breach Date Reported 12/14/07 (reported to New Hampshire Attorney General on 11/3 Organization eMotive, Inc. d/b/a KimsCrafts Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims KimsCrafts.com customers Number Affected approximately 4,500 Types of Data Names, addresses, and credit card numbers Breach Description On November 3rd, 2007 lawyers...
 
Tags: kimscrafts, breach, e-commerce, credit file, credit, credit card data, kimscrafts e-commerce site, data, data security firm
 
 
 
 
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The Point of Breach Notification Laws

2007-11-07 21:57:00 by Security Retentive in Security Retentive
 
...Breaches and Privacy Violations Aren't Just About Identity Theft" . Ben Wright left a comment there that I never responded to. Here goes He said Peter Huber argues in Forbes that there is no "privacy" in our social security numbers or credit card numbers. The "secrecy" of those things does not really authenticate us. So this business of...
 
Tags: breach notification laws, breach, breach notification, laws, data, public policy data, data owner, data custodian, data breaches
 
 
 
 
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Duke School of Law breach affects 3,200

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2007-12-06 11:37:20 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Breach Date Reported 12/4/07 Organization Duke University Contractor/Consultant/Branch School of Law Victims Current and prospective Law School applicants Number Affected 3,200 1,400 in one database containing applicant data and some Social Security numbers, 1,800 in a second database containing applicant data and passwords used by...
 
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Passport Canada web site suffers serious breach

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2007-12-05 11:51:09 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Breach Date Reported 12/4/07 Organization Government of Canada Contractor/Consultant/Branch Passport Canada As mandated by the Canadian Passport Order, Passport Canada is responsible for issuing, revoking, withholding, recovering, and providing instructions on the use of Canadian passports Victims Certain persons applying for Canadian...
 
Tags: passport canada, information, personal information, passport application information, application, breach, passport application site, passport canada spokesman, significant security breaches
 
 
 
 
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Systematic Automations breach continued...

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2008-02-25 10:28:07 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Breach Date Reported 2/22/08 Organization Torrance Unified School District Contractor/Consultant/Branch Systematic Automation This breach is related to Theft from vendor affects Modesto City Schools employees " dated 2/12/08 L.A. Dept. of Water of Power employees exposed " dated 2/19/08, and Clovis Unified School District employees...
 
Tags: sensitive personal information, personal information, district, information, 33-campus district, district officials, enrolls district staffers, information security practices, school district vendor
 
 
 
 
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Nestle Waters North America employee affected by Systematic Automation breach

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2008-03-04 10:08:42 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Breach Date Reported 2/26/08 Organization Nestle Waters North America Inc. ("NWNA Contractor/Consultant/Branch Systematic Automation This breach is related to Theft from vendor affects Modesto City Schools employees " dated 2/12/08 L.A. Dept. of Water of Power employees exposed " dated 2/19/08, and Clovis Unified School District employees...
 
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Marathon County, Wisconsin Purchase Card Program breach

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2008-03-06 11:40:55 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Breach Date Reported 2/27/08 Organization Marathon County, Wisconsin Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims County employees Number Affected 270 Types of Data Names, Social Security numbers, and dates of birth Breach Description Marathon County officials inadvertently sent a file containing personal information belonging to employee...
 
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