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Nikon magazine hit with security breach
September 15, 2006
Incident reveals personal and financial information of 3,235 subscribers who had registered for the magazine online.
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Air Force hit with security breach
August 22, 2005
Air Force officials are busy notifying more than 33,000 airmen that a security breach has occurred with its online assignment and career management system.
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Illinois university hit with security breach
July 5, 2006
Data on more than 180,000 people is at risk after hackers get into servers at Western Illinois University.
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Court orders data on credit card heist to be saved
August 4, 2005
CardSystems and three other companies are ordered not to destroy data related to the security breach at the payment processor.
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Discover security breach, blame the co-workers?
August 24, 2007
IT managers in small, midsize companies believe staff members are responsible for online-security problems, survey finds.
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FBI widens probe of debit-card theft
February 22, 2006
A possible security breach involving at least one major retailer may be tied to other crimes and affect other companies.
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U.K.'s Home Office admits to database breaches
August 31, 2006
The government agency says four of five incidents involved members of staff accessing databases for unauthorized purposes.
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OfficeMax: No evidence of security breach
March 15, 2006
Office-supply chain says study found no indication that the company's customer information was lost.
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Web of intrigue widens in debit-card theft case
February 12, 2006
Wal-Mart acknowledges a breach but OfficeMax's role is uncertain in a case that has resulted in 200,000 cards being canceled.
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Analyst: Hidden costs in security breaches
March 2, 2005
Companies that cull consumer information are missing the mark in understanding customers' concerns, Forrester analyst says.
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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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Data breach bills resurface in Congress
February 7, 2007
Two bills take different approaches toward the tricky concept of how to regulate what happens if a company has a data leak.
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Navigating the law of unintended consequences
March 14, 2005
A legislative rush to prevent privacy violations could create more problems than they solve, says CNET News.com's Declan McCullagh.
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TJX says 45.7 million customer records were compromised
March 29, 2007
Filing with the SEC reveals scope of the breach is far wider than previously believed.
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Federal student aid site exposes borrowers' data
August 24, 2006
Education Dept. disables online payment feature of site, following security gaffe that could affect up to 21,000.
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Senate moves toward new data security rules
July 28, 2005
Three congressional committees meet to work on new security breach laws, though their proposals aren't quite ready for final vote.
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Banks scramble on debit card theft
February 13, 2006
Several large banks and credit unions are canceling cards because of a security breach--here's what you need to know.
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Identity theft: Calendar
October 24, 2005
How are laws to combat ID fraud progressing? What events are coming up? Keep track with News.com's regularly updated schedule.
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Senators propose sweeping data-security bill
June 30, 2005
Far-reaching bill includes an avalanche of new rules for corporate data security and stiff penalties for information burglars.
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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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