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The Arizona Office of the Auditor General finds plenty of holes

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2008-06-23 12:28:27 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Northern Arizona University Victims Students, faculty and staff Number Affected more than 10,000 Types of Data Names, Social Security numbers, student identification numbers, addresses, phone numbers, e-mail addresses and user accounts Breach Description The Office of the Auditor General has conducted a performance audit of information...
 
Tags: information, information security officer, personal information, information security staffs, confidential information, information security, university information, sensitive information, sensitive
 
 
 
 
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Citizens Advice stolen laptop was encrypted

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2007-12-13 13:37:02 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Northern Ireland Up to 60,000 client records are held on the computer, which was stolen in the early hours of 5 December 2007. According to Citizens Advice in Northern Ireland, the data stored relates to people from the Belfast area who have sought advice from a Citizens Advice Bureau office within the city most records would include name,...
 
Tags: laptop encryption, laptop encryption software, advice, encryption, encryption product, citizens advice, laptop, sought advice, personal data
 
 
 
 
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Five-year-old wanders into bank branch after-hours

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2008-02-06 10:24:03 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Northern Echo online story The Press online story Report Credit The Northern Echo Response From the online sources cited above Little Oliver was at the HSBC with mum, Alison, and dad Daniel, when the family visited the cash machine at Easingwold, North Yorkshire, on Saturday afternoon Mrs Pettigrew said: "We usually go into the bank and...
 
Tags: bank, customers, bank customers, bank after-hours, branch, door malfunction, bank doors, malfunction, breach description
 
 
 
 
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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
...northern New England states Number Affected MBA estimates that hundreds of thousands MBA is the Massachusetts Bankers Association which represents approximately 200 commercial, savings and co-operative banks and savings and loan institutions in Massachusetts and elsewhere in New England Types of Data Credit card information Breach...
 
Tags: breach, breach description, security breach, retail data breach, major retailer, retailer, data, major breach, data breach
 
 
 
 
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RFID: Menace in the Far North

2007-01-05 00:00:00 by Ari Juels in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...northern fringes of the continent signifies a larger encroaching problem--one that may someday affect me. What prompts me to spare a thought for those creatures in the distant north is a question about RFID (Radio-Frequency Identification), a broad term for wireless microchips. During a recent discussion about the convenient RFID (tap-and-go)...
 
Tags: rfid, convenient rfid, boston call, boston, transit cards recently, rfid privacy, muster sympathy, snow-free streets, northern fringes
 
 
 
 
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Stolen UK Ministry of Defence laptop affects up to 600,000

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2008-01-20 14:51:19 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Northern Ireland (UK Contractor/Consultant/Branch Ministry of Defence (MoD Victims people who have either expressed an interest in, or have joined, the Royal Navy, Royal Marines and the Royal Air Force Number Affected 600,000 Types of Data Names, addresses, telephone numbers, passport details, National Insurance numbers, drivers license...
 
Tags: confidential personal information, personal information, sensitive personal information, information, extensive personal data, personal data, personal, information held, data protection practices
 
 
 
 
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Stolen SunGard laptop affects at least 10 post-secondary schools

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2008-04-21 14:49:39 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Northern Michigan College students from 2003 at risk could potentially put personal information about Northwest Missouri State University students and alumni in the wrong hands Northwest believes it followed all appropriate internal procedures for protecting the privacy of its students. For its part, SunGard Higher Education has accepted...
 
Tags: information, personal information, store confidential information, university, university system, data custodians apply, data custodians, information security governance, sungard
 
 
 
 
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Beware! $4 + a gallon is bringing out the thieves in our communities.

2008-05-31 04:53:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...Northern Ireland about four or five years ago. There was very little start-up costs involved and being the owner of a restaurant, he had a ready supply of used oil. He told me at that at that time, people were converting their vehicles to run on the oil and were going around gathering up used oil from restaurants. The owners of these...
 
Tags: oil, oil tanks, thieves, fuel, fuel cap, tanks, fuel tanks, fuel thefts, thieves plenty
 
 
 
 
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1st Source Bank reissues all debit cards in response to breach

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2008-06-05 09:09:56 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...northern Indiana and southern Michigan began alerting customers last month after an outside monitoring service it uses noticed on May 12 an unusual flow of data from a bank server containing debit card data, says James Seitz, senior vice president of consumer and electronic banking. "We immediately saw that and shut it down," says Seitz Evan]...
 
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Bus Defended Against Terrorists Who Want to Reenact the Movie Speed

2008-06-10 12:31:22 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...northern New Jersey to the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Midtown New Jersey Transit is currently in the process of equipping all of its roughly 3,000 buses with the technology. NJ Transit Chief of Police Joseph Bober said: "This enhanced technology helps us protect our bus drivers and customers. It's another proactive tool to protect our...
 
Tags: bus, bus drivers, bus companies, decamp bus lines, buses, tourist buses, technology helps, technology, commuter buses