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Stolen account firm laptop contained personal information

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2008-04-28 09:50:55 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...firm has made nearly 500 employees of Coos County and private organizations concerned about identity theft Reference URL The World Report Credit Jessica Musicar and Jolene Guzman, Staff Writers at The World Response From the online source cited above The theft of a laptop computer owned by a local accounting firm has made nearly 500...
 
Tags: information, clients personal information, clients, personal information, specific information, store confidential information, client information, confidential information, personal information inside
 
 
 
 
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Burglary at Milwaukee tax & accounting firm exposes 600

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2008-02-27 16:36:49 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...firm Reference URL Wisconsin Office of Privacy Protection notification Report Credit The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade & Consumer Protection Response From the online source cited above Approximately 600 individuals had their information compromised The office of Kurt Bischoff Tax & Accounting, Inc. was burglarized on...
 
Tags: breach description, breach, data breach page, security breach, data, sensitive personal information, information, data breach, kurt bischoff tax
 
 
 
 
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Houston law firm threw confidential client information in the trash

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2008-07-17 14:59:25 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Firm Contractor/Consultant/Branch his wife Victims Clients Number Affected hundreds Types of Data personal financial records, documents with Social Security numbers, people's medical files and more Breach Description HOUSTON -- Harris County Sheriff's deputies uncovered hundreds of people's personal financial files that had been...
 
Tags: houston, weber, weber wishes, houston attorney, bankruptcy, khou-tv news, news, bankruptcy files, william weber
 
 
 
 
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Anonymizer acquired by risk-mitigation firm

2008-05-01 00:00:00 by Ellen Messmer in Network World on Security
 
Herndon, Va.,-based risk-mitigation firm Abraxas Corp. announced it has acquired, for an undisclosed price, San Diego-based Anonymizer, which makes products that shield a user's identity online
 
Tags: identity online, anonymizer, san, herndon, user, shield, price, products
 
 
 
 
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Security firm asks for help cracking ransomware key

2008-06-08 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Anti-virus firm Kapersky Lab is seeking help cracking an encryption key that's part of an extortion scheme seeking money from users whose PCs have been infected by malware
 
Tags: extortion scheme, encryption key, malware, pcs, users, money
 
 
 
 
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File-sharing breach at investment firm highlights dangers of P2P networks -- again

2008-07-09 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
An investment firm in Virginia, with Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer among its clients, is the latest company to suffer a data breach because of an employee's use of a file-sharing network
 
Tags: investment firm, supreme court justice, data breach, suffer, virginia, network, breyer, employee, clients
 
 
 
 
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Investment Firm Clients Personal Data Exposed Over P2P Networks

2008-07-10 09:50:56 by CyberInsecure in CyberInsecure.com
 
The Alexandria, Va.-based investment firm last week had to notify about 2,000 of its clients that their names, Social Security numbers and birthdates had potentially been exposed on the LimeWire P2P network, according to a story published Wednesday by The Washington Post. Among the individuals whose personal data was exposed in the Wagner...
 
Tags: personal data, investment firm, limewire p2p network, social security, wagner compromise, washington post, clients, story, names
 
 
 
 
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Ex-Congressmans Firm Made Defective Tank Deal With Iraq

2008-07-10 12:00:00 by Danger Room in Wired Security
 
...firm, Defense Solutions, for the new outfits. The company got itself a contract to refurbish Soviet-era tanks for the Iraqi government under a deal with such lopsided terms it likely would have been illegal under U.S. law
 
Tags: refurbish soviet-era tanks, defense solutions, deal, iraqi government, curt weldons, crappy tanks, firm, iraq, law
 
 
 
 
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Security firm warns against Olympic spam

2008-08-19 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b57894 in Network World on Security
 
Beware of e-mails with sensational Olympic subject titles. They will likely contain a form of malware called Storm that infects computer systems, according to enterprise security firm, Secure Computing
 
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