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Personal information stolen from State Street mystery vendor

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2008-06-03 11:28:32 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 5/29/08 Organization State Street Corporation Stock Symbol NYSE: STT Contractor/Consultant/Branch Unnamed vendor hired "to provide legal support services Victims employees and some customers of the former Investors Financial Services Corp. (IBT Number Affected more than 45,000 Types of Data...
 
Tags: information, personal information, street, legacy ibt customers, ibt, street corp, customers, information protection strategies, data
 
 
 
 
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Stolen Penn State laptop had information on 677

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2008-01-28 12:43:09 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 1/25/08 Organization Pennsylvania State University Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Certain students attending between 1999 and 2004 Number Affected 677 Types of Data Personally identifiable information including Social Security numbers Breach Description A laptop was stolen from a...
 
Tags: information, store information, sensitive personal information, information custodian, information security practice, identifiable information, confidential information, laptop, penn
 
 
 
 
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Oklahoma State University Parking Services server is compromised

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2008-05-15 15:08:54 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 5/14/08 Organization Oklahoma State University ("OSU Contractor/Consultant/Branch OSU Parking & Transit Services Victims OSU faculty, staff and students who had purchased a parking permit between July 2002 and March 2008 Number Affected as many as 70,000 Types of Data names, addresses and...
 
Tags: server, sensitive personal information, personal information, information, server administrators, server immediately, server prior, database server, confidential 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
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 2/7/08 Organization 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...
 
Tags: information, university professor inadvertently, university, protect confidential information, university professor, professor, post public information, iowa, confidential personal information
 
 
 
 
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Indiana State University professor's laptop is stolen

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2008-07-17 09:29:35 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 7/15/08 Organization Indiana State University Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims students who took economics classes from 1997 through the spring semester 2008 Number Affected more than 2,500 Types of Data names, grades, e-mail addresses and student identification numbers Until 2003,...
 
Tags: university, information, personal information, information includes names, university students, confidential information, laptop, evan contact information, university policy prohibits
 
 
 
 
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Hard drive stolen from New Mexico State University was encrypted

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2008-01-07 09:50:57 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 1/5/08 Organization New Mexico State University Contractor/Consultant/Branch Special Events Department Victims every employee hired by the department since 1999 Number Affected Unknown Types of Data Names and Social Security numbers Breach Description An encrypted external hard drive was...
 
Tags: hard drive, external hard drive, information, personal information, employee information, computer hard drive, employee, employee hired, special events
 
 
 
 
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Wisconsin state agency mailing exposes data on 260,000

2008-01-09 00:00:00 by HASH0x8470124 in Network World on Security
 
Appalled" officials at the Wisconsin State Department of Health and Family Services (DHFS) are asking Electronic Data Systems to explain why it allowed Social Security numbers to be printed on the address labels of information brochures recently sent to more than 260,000 recipients of state health care services
 
Tags: health, health care services, information brochures recently, electronic data systems, family services, wisconsin, social security, address labels, department
 
 
 
 
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'Halting State' a good read for security geeks

2008-01-24 00:00:00 by M. E. Kabay in Network World on Security
 
I have just finished reading a novel called 'Halting State,' by Charles Stross, that strikes me as a significant event for security specialists in the development of today's science fiction. Much as William Gibson's Neuromancer is credited with popularizing the notion of cyberspace in establishing the cyberpunk style, I think Halting State may...
 
Tags: security specialists, information security specialists, speaks directly, william gibson, charles stross, cyberpunk style, significant event, science fiction, cyberspace
 
 
 
 
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Unattended Middle Tennessee State University laptop

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2008-02-14 11:59:07 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 2/14/08 Organization Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Current and former students Number Affected 1,500 Types of Data Names and Social Security numbers Breach Description A Middle Tennessee State University laptop was left unattended by a...
 
Tags: university laptop, university, sensitive personal information, personal information, information, university computer, current students, computer, current
 
 
 
 
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State Dept. Apologizes to Obama for Passport Snooping

2008-03-21 15:45:00 by Associated Press in Wired Security
 
Calling it an unauthorized breach of his privacy, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice calls Barack Obama and apologizes after three State Department contractors are caught looking through the Democratic presidential candidate's passport file