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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.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.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.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.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.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.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.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.House committee endorses SSN limits, antispyware effort
May 10, 2007 Two bills win unanimous approval from a key committee, paving the way for a floor vote, but some outside Congress still have reservations.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.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.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.Police Blotter: Is it legal to use an alias anymore?
October 12, 2007 Arizona senior citizen sentenced to 10 years for inventing the name "Peter Reynolds" and using it to open bank accounts, pay his monthly bills.Stolen Boeing laptop held ID data on 382,000
December 14, 2006 Former Boeing employees, some retirees could be at risk of ID theft after a notebook goes missing.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.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.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.Loan company reports loss of data on 1.3 million
June 2, 2006 Texas student-loan provider says IT contractor lost hardware containing customer names and Social Security numbers.Laptop theft exposes teachers to ID fraud risk
April 9, 2007 Stolen laptops contain Social Security numbers and other information on Chicago Public Schools employees.Short shelf life for data breach laws?
March 2, 2006 Privacy expert Thomas Oscherwitz says given the rapid advancement of technology, these laws may quickly become obsolete. Sponsored matches for "social security number"
