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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
...prudent business people, in addition to complying with all regulations regarding proper and timely notification," MacAdam wrote to The World Evan] Prudent business people should do many things, and one thing among them is to regularly evaluate the risks involved with the way the handle information. A prudent business person should be able to...
 
Tags: information, clients personal information, clients, personal information, specific information, store confidential information, client information, confidential information, personal information inside
 
 
 
 
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Wakeup Call for Risk Management

2008-09-19 10:11:09 by Burton Group in Security and Risk Management Strategies Blog
 
...prudent loan practices . They made too many loans that buyers might not be able to repay. Exotic instruments like ARMs, option ARMs, and interest only loans proliferated. In many cases, all pretense of lending standards were abandoned, so-called liar loans approved Capital was grossly over-leveraged . Mortgage lenders and other financial...
 
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Duke School of Law breach affects 3,200

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2007-12-06 11:37:20 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Prudent decision on the part of the school the first intrusion occurred in early November, when a directory of foreign files was inserted into the site. Another set of files was deposited on Thanksgiving Day. We believe that nothing was done with these files until the attack began on the afternoon of Nov. 29 Comfyllama] Write access to the...
 
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S&K Menswear two-phased attack

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2008-01-03 10:40:36 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...prudent steps in response to an incident. Timing is critical and the response took ~30 minutes, which is good. The response to customers however was not quite as good. Judging from the date on the sample customer letter, it took 47 days to send notification to customers S&K's investigation of this incident is ongoing We want to stress,...
 
Tags: information, personal information, information security practices, notification, information security, breach notification letter, sample customer letter, credit card, credit card data
 
 
 
 
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Long Island University notifies students of mailing error

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2008-02-12 09:53:50 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...prudent decision to notify students quickly. LIU deserves credit Long Island University deeply regrets that personal information may have been inadvertently exposed to potential identity theft," Long Island University President David Steinberg said Evan] The leader of the school addressing the situation is another good call in my opinion We...
 
Tags: island university, university, post, post office personnel, students, post office, personal data, data, social security
 
 
 
 
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Confidential Texas A & M personnel file exposed on the Internet

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2008-02-18 23:51:43 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...prudent course then was to take action that essentially assumed the data was made available to somebody who shouldn't have had it Evan] Absolutely. This remark is right on Dave Mayes, a spokesman for Texas A&M) said it appears the personal information was accidentally uploaded to the Internet during a recent computer server update. Only...
 
Tags: texas, sensitive personal information, personal information, texas agrilife extension, file, texas agrilife research, information, texas cooperative extension, confidential information
 
 
 
 
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Cost of vulnerability

2007-03-05 21:19:05 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
 
...Prudent and Pragmatic approach can reduce the cost and preserve company's brand identity
 
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Nevada Department of Public Safety applicants exposed

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2008-03-07 10:20:48 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...prudent decision There is currently no indication the data that was lost has been used for any unlawful purpose From the Crown, Stanley and Silverman statement The drive contained unencrypted personal information of approximately 300 individuals Evan] The Nevada DPS reports 109 people and Crown, Stanley and Silverman reports 300. Are there...
 
Tags: personal information, lost personal information, sensitive personal information, nevada, confidential personal information, information, nevada payroll information, nevada department, nevada dps
 
 
 
 
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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
...prudent thing by issuing a press release. Stay tuned I am interested in reading more details. From an information security perspective, I probably won't like what I read Past Breaches Unknown
 
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Laptop is stolen from the car of a First Calgary Savings employee

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2008-05-20 10:47:48 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...prudent steps possible to protect the privacy and security of affected member-owners We have undertaken several additional monitoring approaches to provide an enhanced level of protection to the affected member-owners Evan] Additional monitoring is good. Steps to prevent a similar occurrence would be good to, eh First Calgary Savings places...
 
Tags: employee, information, personal information, breach description, breach, information security breach, financial information, confidential information, calgary savings