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Union Mortgage loan applicant information found in dumpster

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2008-02-29 14:14:23 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Loan applicants Number Affected Unknown hundreds of people" including "Thousands of pages of sensitive documents Types of Data Information that is typically found in loan applications, including bank statements, credit reports, and tax returns Breach Description Thousands of pages of sensitive loan application information were discovered...
 
Tags: information, collect personal information, personal information, union mortgage, loan, loan companies continue, loan companies, union mortgage services, background information
 
 
 
 
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Employee fraud at Wells Fargo Home Mortgage affects some customers

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2008-07-08 12:58:12 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...loan numbers, Personal Identification Numbers (PIN), current bank account numbers and last five digits of their Social Security numbers Breach Description We have learned that a former Wells Fargo employee working in our reverse mortgage servicing department inappropriately used another customer's account information. We have taken...
 
Tags: fargo, fargo home mortgage, employee, fargo employee, reverse mortgage loan, reverse mortgage, social security, evan cool, evan
 
 
 
 
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Kiva Update

2008-06-17 09:21:07 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...loans went to Sith Saron, who lives in Siem Reap Province in Cambodia. She needed a $1,000 for a cow, seeds, and a motorcycle for her farm Sith Saron is 37 years old and the mother of 7 children. She sells Khmer traditional cakes such as Num Korm, Num Bot, and Num Krouk to the people in her community and usually earns up to $4 each day. Her...
 
Tags: kiva, money, loan money, supports kiva, loan, people, sith saron, connect people, unique
 
 
 
 
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CollegeInvest external hard drive goes missing

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2008-04-30 14:10:46 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...loans and scholarships Victims Customers CollegeInvest Education Loan Borrowers January 2002 - August 2007 Student Loan Borrower Parent Loan Borrower Consolidation Loan Borrower CollegeInvest 529 College Savings Program Direct Portfolio College Savings - Account Owner, Beneficiary Stable Value Plus College Savings - Account Owner,...
 
Tags: external hard drive, drive, hard drive, college savings, college savings program, computer hard drive, data, lost data, loan
 
 
 
 
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Former LendingTree employees sold access to customer information

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2008-04-23 13:08:37 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...loan request data such as name, address, email address, telephone number, Social Security number, income and employment information Breach Description Recently, LendingTree learned that several former employees may have taken Company passwords and given them to a handful of lenders. These lenders then used the passwords to access LendingTree...
 
Tags: information, lendingtree, necessarily fault lendingtree, fault lendingtree, employment information, credit card information, lendingtree faqs, information security personnel, security
 
 
 
 
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The Pros and Cons of LifeLock

2008-06-12 04:00:00 by Bruce Schneier in Wired Security
 
...loan operation didn't check with any of the credit bureaus before approving the loan -- perfectly reasonable for an amount this small. The payday-loan operation called Davis to collect, and LifeLock cleared up the problem. His credit report remains spotless The Experian credit bureau's lawsuit basically claims that fraud alerts are only for...
 
Tags: credit reports, credit, credit card, fraud alerts permanent, fraud, credit industry, experian credit bureau, lifelock, issue credit
 
 
 
 
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LifeLock and Identity Theft

2008-06-17 06:51:25 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...loan operation didn't check with any of the credit bureaus before approving the loan -- perfectly reasonable for an amount this small. The payday-loan operation called Davis to collect, and LifeLock cleared up the problem. His credit report remains spotless The Experian credit bureau's lawsuit basically claims that fraud alerts are only for...
 
Tags: identity theft, credit reports, credit, identity, credit card, fraud alerts permanent, fraud, credit industry, experian credit bureau
 
 
 
 
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First Magnus Financial customer data found in dumpster

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2008-02-21 13:56:43 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Loan and financial documents containing names, addresses, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, financial account information, etc Breach Description Stacked boxes containing thousands of sensitive loan and financial documents were discovered in an dumpster outside a Ft. Lauderdale, Florida branch of the now bankrupt...
 
Tags: magnus, magnus financial, magnus financial corporation, police, police officers, documents, sensitive documents, police departments, financial documents
 
 
 
 
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Our Data, Ourselves

2008-05-15 18:00:00 by Bruce Schneier in Wired Security
 
...loan, it's our data that determines whether or not we get it. When we try to board an airplane, it's our data that determines how thoroughly we get searched -- or whether we get to board at all. If the government wants to investigate us, they're more likely to go through our data than they are to search our homes; for a lot of that data, they...
 
Tags: data, medical data, enforce data deletion, data shadow, limit data collection, limit, data banks, data controls, information brokers
 
 
 
 
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Our Data, Ourselves

2008-05-20 13:10:55 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...loan, it's our data that determines whether or not we get it. When we try to board an airplane, it's our data that determines how thoroughly we get searched -- or whether we get to board at all. If the government wants to investigate us, they're more likely to go through our data than they are to search our homes; for a lot of that data, they...
 
Tags: data, medical data, enforce data deletion, data shadow, limit data collection, limit, data banks, data controls, information brokers