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Just in time for Fall Semester, it’s time to look back on the three data breaches that occurred in July. To be fair, three data breaches in a single month is a pretty good month when you consider that Adam Dodge, who tracks data breaches at educational institutions, has recorded 94 on his Educational...

It started in 2006 with the Office Max data breach. Then, tumbling like dominoes, came TJX, Dave & Busters, Hannaford Brothers and 7-Eleven. According to today federal grand jury indictment, Albert “Segvec” Gonzalez was the hacker responsible for them all. Gonzalez, 28, and two unnamed Russian co...

I’ve said in other blog posts that of all the ways data breaches happen, nothing riles me as much as the careless, contemptuous—maybe even criminal—dumping of records into publicly accessible dumpsters. And, here we go again. This time the thousands of records contain personal and financial information...

After spending a year eating my way through Italy, I caught a glimpse of my reflection in a store window one evening and saw that my dress had bunched up over my butt. How shocked I was when I tried to smooth it away, only to find that what I'd seen in my reflection was actually my newly-large butt...

You’d think they’d learn, but 85% of all businesses have had data breaches in the past year. That’s up from 60% in 2008. The numbers come from the Ponemon Institute’s most recent of four annual Encryption Trends Survey, for which nearly 1,000 U.S.-based executives were asked about the security of the...

I choose a pharmacy based on (a) location, and (b) store hours. However, now that I know more about identity theft and data breaches, I think I’m going to do more research on the pharmacy we’ve been using for the last couple years. I’m going to start by looking into the dumpster out back of the store...

If you’re looking for a job, you already know it’s a tough market right now. Accompanying the bad news about job availability are warnings that identity thieves are reaping the benefits by posing as job recruiters, or hacking job databases. Unfortunately, there’s another example of the latter. Aetna...

Johns Hopkins Hospital has experienced a data breach involving more than 10,000 patients, including dozens of patients who have become identity theft victims as a result of the breach. Donald Bradfield, Senior Counsel for the hospital, sent a letter to the Maryland Attorney General’s office detailing...

UC-Berkeley is the latest data breach victim at an institute of higher learning. The notification letters and emails were sent out Friday to 160,000 current and former students to let them know records dating back as far as 1999 had been accessed by hackers thought to be based in Asia. The source of...

One of the many frustrations of becoming an identity theft victim is the never knowing how it happened. A new study might shine some light on the mystery. Researchers purchased 300 used computer drives from eBay, other auction sites and flea markets and found 34% of them still contained confidential...