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Iowa DNR loses personal information on 7,000

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2007-12-19 14:22:00 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Iowa Contractor/Consultant/Branch Department of Natural Resources (DNR Salem Associates Victims Waste water and drinking water worker permit applicants Number Affected 7,000 Types of Data Applicant data including names, addresses, phone numbers, and Social Security numbers Breach Description An employee of Salem Associates, a contractor...
 
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University of Iowa inadvertently posts personal data to the Internet

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2008-01-15 11:25:40 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Iowa Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims May 2006 College of Engineering graduates Number Affected 216 Types of Data Names, Social Security numbers and grade point averages (GPAs Breach Description A list containing sensitive personal information belonging to University of Iowa, May 2006 College of Engineering graduates was...
 
Tags: university, information security risk, information, iowa, sensitive personal information, social security, internet, breach description, financial information
 
 
 
 
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Iowa State student information exposed for 6 years?

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2008-02-07 14:24:20 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Iowa State University Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Former students who attended course "ME 325" during the spring of 2001 Number Affected 26 Types of Data Names, Social Security numbers, email addresses, scores, and grades Breach Description An Iowa State University professor inadvertently posted confidential personal...
 
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Q&A: Iowa's tragic lesson in business continuity

2008-07-09 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Deb Hale, security administrator at Iowa-based telecommunications provider Long Lines, discusses the most important things a company can do to survive what Mother Nature decides to unleash
 
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Social Security numbers exposed on Iowa land-records Web site

2008-09-05 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Documents with Social Security numbers have been available since 2005 on a Web site that contains land records filed in Iowa counties, although access has now been restricted
 
Tags: social security, web site, land records filed, iowa counties, access, documents
 
 
 
 
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Court orders spammers to pay $236M to Iowa ISP

2008-10-07 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
A federal judge has ordered an Arizona couple to pay more than US$236 million for sending millions of spam messages to a small Iowa ISP (Internet service provider
 
Tags: iowa isp, internet service provider, spam messages, federal judge, arizona couple, us236 million, millions
 
 
 
 
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Personal information of 103,000 doctors from 11 states posted to web site

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2008-03-03 09:19:48 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Iowa, Missouri, Kentucky and West Virginia Number Affected 103,000 Types of Data Names, Social Security numbers, work addresses, and national insurance identification numbers Breach Description Heath Net Federal Services inadvertently posted sensitive personal information to a publicly accessible web server. The breach affects as many as...
 
Tags: personal information, sensitive personal information, information, providers personal information, doctors, health net, health net employees, 103-thousand doctors, social security
 
 
 
 
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Employment records in a New Mexico dumpster

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2008-06-05 23:32:53 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Iowa, Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, Mississippi, Alabama, and South Carolina Employees at Savedra's Tienda, a nearby business, contacted County Commissioner Dick Taylor and Magil Duran of the New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions to help remove the documents from the bin Evan] This is what a model citizen does. How many...
 
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Social Security Numbers Exposed on Iowa Web Site

2008-09-15 07:39:43 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Documents listing the Social Security numbers of Iowans have been posted on a land records Web site since 2005 -- the latest example of a data privacy controversy affecting many county governments in the U.S
 
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The Audacity of Capital Markets

2008-09-19 11:18:37 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...Iowa loses her life savings because of a bad investment decision, it means little to the folks on the trading floor, the market folks are into feeds and speed - just keep the beast alive. Place your bet on this market or that one! Away we go, faster and faster I am sometimes a little sad to observe the same audacity in the CEP world. Instead...