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Stolen: Google employees' personal data
July 3, 2008
Names, addresses, and Social Security numbers of pre-2006 staffers were taken from offices of Colt Express Outsourcing Services.
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Veterans' data swiped in theft
May 22, 2006
Personal information including Social Security numbers is taken during robbery of government employee's home.
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Going back to school on security
February 13, 2008
Internet attorney Eric J. Sinrod finds that educational institutions have been anything but smart about preventing security breaches.
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University server in hackers' hands for a year
May 22, 2006
Intruders go undetected in total on three servers containing student data at Ohio University.
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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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Ohio University suffers security breaches
May 12, 2006
Data thieves may have plundered Social Security numbers and other private info belonging to students and faculty.
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Sacred Heart is latest university to be hacked
May 26, 2006
TV station says personal data of 135,000 was possibly exposed, including people who were never associated with the school.
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FBI probes network breach at Stanford
May 26, 2005
Computer system security breach may have put the personal information of nearly 10,000 people at risk.
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Kiss your old SSN goodbye
May 16, 2005
News.com's Declan McCullagh says legislation on Social Security numbers will likely be enacted this year due to string of security snafus.
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ChoicePoint: We're sorry for data leak
March 15, 2005
The data broker apologizes for exposing 145,000 Americans to ID fraud at a congressional hearing into the need for new data-protection laws.
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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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Laptop theft puts data of 98,000 at risk
March 29, 2005
PC stolen from UC Berkeley graduate admissions office held sensitive data on thousands of people, stretching back three decades.
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HP warned on leak probe's legality
September 30, 2006
In August, outside lawyers said using Social Security numbers to get phone records "more likely than not" violated law.
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Blood bank fears ID heist
December 21, 2004
Delta Blood Bank warns donors after a computer that held personal information is stolen.
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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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This week in security news
January 14, 2005
T-Mobile says an online attacker had gained access to its network. Also: Hackers steal ID info from Virginia university.
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Spyware, data privacy bills reappear in House
February 9, 2007
Congress has tried for years to enact spyware regulations and restrictions on Social Security numbers, with no luck so far.
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Is identity theft inevitable?
March 31, 2005
Think Computer CEO Aaron Greenspan says the crime's not unstoppable--if legislators stop fooling themselves.
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Telecoms feel the pretexting heat
September 26, 2006
As Congress calls telecom CEOs on the carpet, CNET News.com takes a look at how well the phone companies protect your privacy.
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Hackers steal ID info from Virginia university
January 10, 2005
Thousands of students, faculty and staff at George Mason University have personal information downloaded by online intruders in a major security breach.
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