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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
...Equifax, a leading credit monitoring company Evan] Equifax is a leading credit monitoring company, but also one of the three credit reporting agencies. It amazes me how Experian has capitalized on the information they collect, manage and sell. They are responsible for keeping accurate records, but at the same time will charge people a fee to...
 
Tags: systematic automation breach, systematic automation, sensitive personal information, personal information, breach, employees, power employees, information, nwna
 
 
 
 
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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
...Equifax Personal Solutions to provide potentially affected consumers with an opportunity to enroll in the Equifax Credit Watch Gold identity theft protection product at no cost to them for one year Evan] Again, this is not really an identity theft issue. It is a credit card fraud issue. Two related but different issues Lippincott Williams &...
 
Tags: credit, information, credit card, credit cards, equifax credit, report credit, stedmans, information security professionals, personal information
 
 
 
 
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File containing Interbank FX customer information exposed for almost a year

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2008-04-15 23:57:04 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Equifax Credit Watch(TM) Gold with 3-in-l Monitoring for a one-year period Evan] Although one-year has become a sort of de-facto standard in breach responses, it is not long enough. A Social Security number is valuable for a much longer period of time We also will reimburse you for the direct cost of any freeze you choose to put on your...
 
Tags: information, sensitive personal information, personal information, application information, handle sensitive information, information security, interbank, file, confidential information
 
 
 
 
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Oklahoma State University Parking Services server is compromised

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2008-05-15 15:08:54 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Equifax, Experian and Trans Union. If you notice accounts on your credit report that you did not open or applications for credit ("inquiries") that you did not make, these could be indications that someone else is using your personal information, without your permission Evan] "If you notice accounts on your credit report that you did not open...
 
Tags: server, sensitive personal information, personal information, information, server administrators, server immediately, server prior, database server, confidential information
 
 
 
 
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Laptop stolen from Minnesota Department of Commerce vendor

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2007-12-29 00:01:21 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Equifax for one year at no cost to the licensee. [Evan] Credit monitoring only monitors for fraud and alerts a victim after it has already occurred. One year's worth of protection is only good for information that is no good after a year The Department is also demanding from Promissor stricter measures of security for all other data...
 
Tags: minnesota, minnesota real estate, sensitive personal information, personal information, minnesota department, department, minnesota licensees, real, information
 
 
 
 
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Another Wisconsin mailing exposes Social Security numbers

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2008-01-15 13:32:24 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Equifax PIN should follow the instructions to apply for free credit monitoring. There are other steps that can be taken to protect personal information. Ask credit bureaus to place a fraud alert in your credit files for free. Fraud alerts notify potential credit grantors to verify your indetification before extending credit in your name. You...
 
Tags: security, taxpayers, taxpayers social security, social security, wisconsin, credit bureau, credit, breach description, breach
 
 
 
 
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40,000 BlueCross BlueShield members notified of lost laptop

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2008-03-11 15:31:27 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Equifax Credit Watch, to monitor for identity theft The laptop was not encrypted, but does have security features, including the requirement to enter the users identification number and passcode after 15 minutes of inactivity Evan] OK, seriously? Does anyone expect a username and password to stop someone with even novice computer skills? I...
 
Tags: sensitive personal information, personal information, information, confidential information, laptop, information owners, breach description, breach, security breach
 
 
 
 
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51,000 Current and former Agilent Technologies employees at risk

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2008-03-25 09:13:20 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Equifax Evan] I haven't said this for a while, but credit "monitoring" is an after the fact solution that only alerts a person after they are an identity theft victim. One year of monitoring is good for monitoring information that is no longer useful after one year. Obviously a Social Security number will still be valid after the monitoring...
 
Tags: agilent, agilent technologies, agilent vendor march, vendor, administer agilent, agilent alert, agilent employees, stock, stock options
 
 
 
 
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Personal information stolen from Georgia DHR

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2008-03-27 15:51:45 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Equifax, P. O. Box 740241, Atlanta, GA 30374-0241 Tel: 800-685-1111; and Trans Union, P. O. Box 1000, Chester, PA 19022 Tel: 800-888-4213 Commentary I have more questions than answers about this breach. DHR is mandating password protection with no mention of encryption. I wonder if encryption is meant to be implied and how DHR will enforce...
 
Tags: georgia dhr, dhr, georgia, information, agency, agency urges employees, georgia law, georgia department, employees
 
 
 
 
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The Daily Incite - April 22, 2008

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2008-04-22 08:02:38 by Mike Rothman in Mike Rothman's blog
...Equifax's Tony Spinelli's ideas around letting compliance drive security. I like it. But let's hit a fairly important nuance here. The CSO (or security professional) needs to be a bit schizo. On one hand, operationally, it's all about security. But from a funding standpoint, sometimes it's easier to justify an expenditure based on an audit...
 
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