If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or get new posts via email. Thanks for visiting!I don’t really remember what I was up to at 15 years old, but I am pretty sure it was not breaking into my school’s computer files and accessing personal information.
However, that is […]

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Normally when a politician starts stirring things up about a current issue I get annoyed because more often than not they are just trying to score political points. However, this time Governor Jodi Rell of Connecticut has my full support.

In mid-May, Bank of New York Mellon notified clients that some of their personal information including […]

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Wow, this is quite possibly the worst data breach I have ever heard of.

FayerWayer.com (translated “FireWire”) is a popular technology blog in Chile. Normally topics range from iPods, iPhones, Wiis, software, and gadgets.
This is what one of the site editors expected to see when he checked the site at 2am and read this post.
In one […]

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A while ago, we posted about a data breach at Hannaford Bros. grocery stores. Now another store has been used by thieves to steal customers’ personal information. The Lunardi’s supermarket in Los Gatos, California was caught up in a debit card skimming ring and thieves have been having a hey-day hitting customers’ bank accounts.
I was […]

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If you are not familiar with LendingTree, it is a website where you request a quote for a loan and they will provide you with up to 4 loan offers from different vendors. Of course to do that, it is expected that LendingTree will share your information with its partner companies.
Well, according to a letter […]

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Workers at the World Trade Centre in New York, or “Ground Zero”, have had to put up with a lot - difficult work conditions, bad air, and now exposure to identity theft.
Some binners found a bunch of payroll documents in a garbage can behind 115 Broadway. The union attendance sheets listed names and Social Security […]

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Do you use a notebook computer at work? What is on it’s hard drive? Any data on there that could be considered sensitive, either to your customers or employees? A University of Virginia laptop sure did.
Laptops are one of the most popular things to steal because they are portable, easy to conceal, and fetch a […]

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Remember how I wrote about the wide open access to many of our confidential records? Here is another perfect example.
Almost 50,000 patients of the New York-Presbyterian Hospital have had their identities stolen thanks to one man, Dwight McPherson.
McPherson worked as an admissions clerk at the hospital and between 2006 and 2008 has been stealing patients’ […]

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There’s something to be said for the convenience of doing things online. That something is that occasionally, it sloppy programming can lead to data breaches.
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Parts of the voter registration website for Pennsylvania have been disabled after it was found that information that some users submitted could be seen by others.
What was exposed? […]

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A Super 8 Motel in Lamar, Colorado has some explaining to do.
At least three boxes of credit card receipts from the Motel were found in the local landfill. The receipts had customers’ account numbers, names. addresses, and signatures. Oops!
A clerk at the hotel said that that is not their normal procedure to throw these things […]

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