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States fiddle while defrauders steal
June 21, 2005
States lag in investing in systems to detect fraud, which will cost the public big-time, warns SurePayroll President Michael Alter.
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UCLA break-in puts data on 800,000 at risk
December 12, 2006
For more than a year, an intruder has been accessing private information on students and staff, among others, the university says.
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Congress may slap restrictions on SSN use
May 11, 2006
Identity fraud concerns spur promises of new laws restricting some commercial uses of Social Security numbers.
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Start-up launches identity-theft search service
January 24, 2007
Service lets people check if their data is being traded online by criminals, but critics say it could be a boon for the same crooks.
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Boston College reveals alumni data breach
March 17, 2005
School alerts more than 100,000 former students of an attack on a database that holds records used for fund raising.
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Hacker may have pilfered personal data from USDA
June 22, 2006
Agriculture Dept. tells 26,000 employees, contractors that their names, Social Security numbers, photos may be at risk.
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Class action suit over ID theft tossed out
October 12, 2006
Acxiom, a data warehouser, had its databases looted at least twice. But judge throws out an ID-theft class action suit.
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Online attack puts 1.4 million records at risk
October 21, 2004
Time to call the credit bureaus? Almost 1.4 million records containing the personal information of Californians likely stolen.
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Police blotter: Texas student guilty in SSN hack
February 2, 2007
Former UT computer science student appeals conviction for writing program to guess Social Security numbers.
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This week in security
March 18, 2005
The issue of privacy remained very public this week, following ChoicePoint's recent data leak.
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Has the FBI ever heard of Google?
September 13, 2006
Attorney Eric J. Sinrod says Uncle Sam's dubious claims for exemptions in the Freedom of Information Act don't wash in the Internet era.
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LexisNexis flap draws outcry from Congress
April 12, 2005
It took mere hours for LexisNexis' latest embarrassing data leak revelation to spur cries of condemnation from Congress.
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LexisNexis break-in spurs more calls for reform
March 10, 2005
Renewed calls for legislation and industry reform follow theft of personal details of 32,000 Americans.
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