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The Breach Blog November Review

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2007-12-04 13:55:55 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...November, 2007 Thirty-nine (39) breaches were reported on the The Breach Blog during the month of November, 2007 compared with thirty-five (35) during the month of October. November ranks second to September (44) in the number of breaches reported in a month, since The Breach Blog began compiling reports in August The month started out like...
 
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Some Yahoo! employees exposed through mistaken email

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2007-12-12 15:11:31 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...November 12th, 2007 Fidelity Investments inadvertently emailed a file containing personal information pertaining to Yahoo! employee stock purchase plan participants to the wrong company Reference URL The State of New Hampshire Attorney General breach notification Report Credit The New Hampshire State Attorney Response From the State of New...
 
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Laptop stolen in Royal Bolton Hospital break-in

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2007-12-19 15:24:44 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...November 9 and November 12 The computer contains the information of around 350 patients who receive, or have received, oxygen treatment at home. Details include names, addresses, dates of birth, NHS numbers, GP practices and some details about the patients' oxygen supply The hospital has sent letters to those affected and apologised ...
 
Tags: confidential personal information, personal information, royal bolton hospital, hospital, sensitive personal information, bolton, information, information security, share patient information
 
 
 
 
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AIB technical problem discloses details of bank transfers

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2007-11-28 17:08:26 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...November 13th and 15th, 2007. Some customers of other banks involved in the transactions may also be affected Number Affected 11,000 AIB customers, unknown number of victims that are customers of other banks Types of Data Names, addresses and "private bank account details Breach Description The announcement from AIB sums this breach up...
 
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HMRC loses data cartridge that affects 6,548 pensioners

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2007-12-31 23:30:11 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...November as a result of these breaches. Who else should be held accountable? I have lost patience with these people Obviously (or maybe not), the proper use of encryption would have offered better assurance of data security that does "the nature of the medium on which the data" was held. I sincerely hope that HMRC encrypts all confidential...
 
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Videos of some of my presentations

2008-02-05 18:14:38 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...November 2007 The fortified data center in your future TechEd US, June 2007 Windows Mobile 6 security in depth TechEd US, June 2007 Making the tradeoff: be secure or get work done TechEd US, June 2007 Defending layer 8: how to recognize and combat social engineering IT Forum: TechEd Europe, November 2006 Windows Vista firewall and IPsec...
 
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Deloitte & Touche and IKON lose confidential information

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2007-12-20 14:23:09 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...November 19th, 2007 that contained sensitive personally identifiable information belonging to current and former Deloitte & Touche partners, principals and employees. IKON was serving as Deloitte & Touche's document management vendor Reference URL The New Hampshire State Attorney General breach notification SC Magazine Story Report Credit...
 
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TRICARE breach affects 4,700 households

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2007-12-20 12:15:59 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...November 7th, 2007 Electronic Data Systems (EDS) reported to TRICARE that they had discovered a potential compromise of sensitive personally identifiable information belonging to beneficiaries located in Europe. EDS is an IT contractor for TRICARE and "had not appropriately secured a part of the system" they support Reference URL TRICARE TMA...
 
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268,000 donors exposed through stolen Memorial Blood Centers laptop

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2007-12-06 14:09:42 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...November 28th, 2007 while preparations were being made for a blood drive in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. The laptop contained names and Social Security numbers of 268,000 blood donors and appears to have not been encrypted Reference URL Press Release on BusinessWire Press Release on the Memorial Blood Centers Press Release Report...
 
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Passport Canada web site suffers serious breach

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2007-12-05 11:51:09 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...November 26th (2007) an Ontario man noticed that by changing a single character in the URL provided by Passport Canada, he could access the passport application information of other people who had used the site. Passport Canada officials confirmed the security flaw and breach on Tuesday, December 4th Reference URL Reuters Canada News Story...
 
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