25.08.2010 Identity Database To Be Opened To Private Businesses
Wellington, Aug 24 NZPA - The Government's database that is used to confirm identities will be opened to private businesses under a bill introduced to Parliament today.
Internal Affairs Minister Nathan Guy says they will be able to use the Data Validation Service to check the identity of customers, but only under strict conditions of security, privacy and integrity.

23.08.2010 Consumer privacy protection bill passes legislature
Californians could get increased consumer privacy protection if Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signs a bill passed by the Legislature Thursday.

16.07.2010 UK headed for data breach disclosure law within four years
Europe working on legislation to notify victims of information breaches. A law forcing all organisations to publically declare data breaches is expected to be in place in the UK within four years

12.05.2010 Knesset online security lapse exposes secret Mossad data. Second major error in a year reveals names of intelligence and security service officials
The Knesset Web site committed a major security lapse several weeks ago by publicizing the names of high-level Mossad and Shin Bet officials whose identities are kept secret by law.
The security breach comes after a similar error last year exposed information on some of Israel's most sensitive, defense-related technological systems, Haaretz has learned.
Memoranda from the meetings of Knesset committees and other government bodies are routinely posted on the Knesset Web site. But because committees often hear matters on sensitive security issues, monitoring regulations are in place to prevent the unauthorized disclosure of information that could harm state security.

16.04.2010 USA. 95 new breaches in 2010 that didn’t make the news
Here are 95 breach reports between January 1, 2010 and April 12, 2010. The following are organized by sectors.

13.04.2010 Student loan company: Data on 3.3M people stolen
InfoWatch analytic center reports, a company that guarantees federal student loans said Friday that personal data on about 3.3 million people nationwide has been stolen from its headquarters in Minnesota.

09.04.2010 The Supreme Court confirms a penalty of 361,208 euros on Iberia for losing passengers’ personal data
InfoWatch analytic center reports, the ruling dismisses the appeal filed by the company to consider its contents "merely reproduces literally full and the facts contained in the application" without stating "the grounds on which the party bases its procedural posture against acts claims"

29.03.2010 Your health, tax, and search data siphoned
Google, Yahoo, Microsoft's Bing, and other leading websites are leaking medical histories, family income, search queries, and massive amounts of other sensitive data that can be intercepted even when encrypted, computer scientists revealed in a new research paper.

24.02.2010 Orange overshares in bcc blunder. 300 email addresses accidentally meet

09.02.2010 Shell Personnel Data Leaked To Protest Groups-Sources

08.02.2010 Germany and UK buy stolen bank data

22.12.2009 Transnational Data Leakage

16.12.2009 HSBC Heist Includes Data on 130,000 Clients Worldwide

11.12.2009 Data breach by Anglo Irish Bank affects UK clients

08.12.2009 Navy to investigate security breach

02.12.2009 UK: Action taken after details of 110,000 individuals are stolen

23.11.2009 1.5 Million Medical Files At Risk In Health Net Data Breach

16.11.2009 Healthcare companies are not ready for HITECH Act

23.09.2009 HHS guts health-care breach notification law, groups warn

21.09.2009 DuPont sues employee for trade secrets data breach

08.09.2009 Two to plead guilty to fraud, HIPAA violations

31.08.2009 Biggest Breaches of 2009

28.08.2009 Exclusive private jet service's former employees arrested for stealing client lists and financial data

21.08.2009 FTC Issues Final Breach Notification Rule for Electronic Health Information

12.08.2009 Twitter’s Internal Strategy Laid Bare: To Be “The Pulse Of The Planet”

28.07.2009 Leaks Grow in World of Blogs

28.07.2009 HSBC fined for personal data loss

20.07.2009 CVS, Walgreens settle with Indiana AG

13.07.2009 A treasure trove for hackers

08.07.2009 CFTC Sanctions Foreign Currency Broker Who Allowed Confidential Personal Information of its Customers to Appear on the Internet

01.07.2009 Arrest made over data theft at brokerage

17.06.2009 DoH blocks data breach database

15.06.2009 T-Mobile Investigates Alleged Data Breach

08.06.2009 Sony notifies 5000 customers of credit card breach

05.06.2009 Stolen credit data posted online

01.06.2009 Lost laptop exposes thousands of pension records in UK

28.05.2009 Bank worker was arrested for attempted theft

25.05.2009 Indiana agency sent 4,500 social security numbers to wrong companies

21.05.2009 Rapists Demand Cash Over Lost Data Stick

05.05.2009 FINRA Fines Centaurus Financial $175,000 for Failure to Protect Confidential Customer Information

30.04.2009 Ex-Fed Employee, Brother Arrested In Identity Theft Scheme

28.04.2009 Former tax dept. employee charged with ID theft

24.04.2009 EU leaders' passport numbers found on public computer in Prague

22.04.2009 Human error blamed for data loss

21.04.2009 Hilton Is Sued Over Luxury Chain

15.04.2009 Mitsubishi UFJ Securities coworker's ID used to take client info

13.04.2009 'Stolen' Blackberry containing personal details of cabinet ministers, police and MPs found

09.04.2009 $500 000 of data taken in theft

08.04.2009 N.B. government confirms latest breach of confidential health records

06.04.2009 Heartland data breach damages still mounting

01.04.2009 EPIC Petitions for a Closer Look at the Cloud - Privacy Group Asks the FTC to Investigate Google Cloud Computing for Inadequate Safeguards and Unfair and Deceptive Trade Practices

31.03.2009 California mortgage broker charged in multimillion-dollar identity theft ring

26.03.2009 London Health Trust Warned After Data Breach

24.03.2009 Laptop with personal data stolen

17.03.2009 Drunk IT Consultant Trashes Data on Government System

03.03.2009 Possible Threat To Obama's Security Discovered
PITTSBURGH -- Target 11 has learned a Cranberry company that monitors peer-to-peer file-sharing networks discovered what it said is a potentially serious security breach involving President Barack Obama’s helicopter.

27.02.2009 Hospital lost patient data disks
A hospital has lost 100 computer disks containing personal information about patients.

27.02.2009 IT pros fear iPod data theft
In a new study published by Credant, which specializes in tools used to encrypt or block data being saved onto mobile devices, the company found that 67 percent of the 323 IT workers it surveyed consider the iPod to be a potential data security risk. - read more: infoworld.com

25.02.2009 Customers’ personal data sent to stranger
A FINANCE company has admitted sending confidential information about customers, including their bank account numbers, to a stranger.

23.02.2009 Wikileaks Forced to Leak Its Own Secret Info
What's Wikileaks, the net's foremost document leaking site, supposed to do when a whistle-blower submits a list of email addresses belonging to the site's confidential donors as a leaked document?

17.02.2009 Clayton deputies’ personal information, files compromised
Clayton County Sheriff Kem Kimbrough is investigating a security breach after some deputies’ personal information was taken from internal files.

14.02.2009 US nuke lab loses 67 computers
WASHINGTON - The Los Alamos nuclear weapons laboratory in New Mexico is missing 67 computers, including 13 that were lost or stolen in the past year. Officials said no classified information has been lost.

12.02.2009 Online banking data leakage
Online banking bandits pulled thousands of dollars from the accounts of current and former SemGroup LP employees after personal information was inadvertently left on a bankruptcy court document made public last summer. SemGroup officials said, however, that as far as they are aware, all the...

09.02.2009 Average UK data breach costs firms Ј1.7m
The average UK data breach in business costs Ј1.7m, according to privacy and information management research firm Ponemon Institute. In an annual report sponsored by security firm PGP Corporation, it is estimated that costs incurred by UK businesses after experiencing a data breach had...

06.02.2009 110 thousands students' records leaked in Japan
One more significant data loss took place in Japan—this time several Kanagawa prefectural senior high schools in Yokogama were hit by the insiders.

27.01.2009 Monster.com hacked; user ID, e-mail, phone numbers stolen
Monster.com recently posted a PSA on their site notifying users that their database was illegally accessed and certain contact and account data were taken, “including Monster user IDs and passwords, email addresses, names, phone numbers, and some basic demographic data.”

19.01.2009 Information digest#141 - The breach year starts
The breach year 2009 starts slowly. Lame January seems no so quiet as it seemed before – the overall data loss increases. And not only data loss is the case, rather the growing number of intentional breaches. 2 out of 5 this week’s breaches were intentional (one breach brought 300 thousand dollars of financial damage). The largest breach of the week happened in Japan. Nearly 100 thousand students were affected by the leak of the personal data to the Internet.

13.01.2009 Information digest #140 - New Year's Quietness
The year 2008 was marked by the highest number of the breaches in the history of Mankind. And the situation doesn’t seem to be improving so far. With every passing year, number and volume of the breaches increase. Their economic damage rises as well. Although, if you believe in the saying „The way you meet New Year – the way you spend it”, 2009 is not gonna be that bad. During the holidays break only minor breaches prevailed. Let’s see, if the coming year will be as quiet as first days.

31.12.2008 Identities of 16,000 Pulte Homes customers compromised
Computer tapes holding private customer information including names, addresses, driver's license numbers and financial account numbers were stolen from a Pulte Homes office in Las Vegas last month.

29.12.2008 Information digest #139 - Even more holiday breaches
The last week of December didn’t bring peace to the world of breaches. This week’s largest incident happened at the RBS Worldpay. The breach has been discovered pretty late – about 100 of vote fraud cases has been initiated. Another two incidents also brought serious financial damage: one breach at the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the one at the Cedars-Sinai medical center.

24.12.2008 Hackers strike Loraine Community College system: data on 22000 compromised
A sophisticated computer hacker was able to breach the security system of two Lorain County Community College servers in an attack during the Thanksgiving holiday break. One of the servers contained records of approximately 22,000 students, community users, and employees and their Social Security numbers. The breach is being investigated by forensic experts and the FBI.

22.12.2008 Digest #138 - Plenty of small routine breaches
There were numerous breaches but no accidents could be called serious this week. 3 out of 7 breaches were accidental, while intentional breaches didn’t aim personal data (rather than hardware). The data-leaking organization list was also common: universities, governmental and medical services.

19.12.2008 New Hampshire Health Department Compromised 9,300 Personal Records
The New Hampshire health department mistakenly released 9,300 names and Social Security numbers of Medicare recipients.

10.12.2008 German black criminals offer 21 mln personal entries for 12 mln.euro
Black market criminals are offering to sell details on 21 million German bank accounts for €12 million (US$15.3 million), according to an investigative report published Saturday.

05.12.2008 Agency of Workforce of Florida accidentally published data on 250000 jobseekers
The Agency for Workforce Innovation (Florida, US) accidentally posted the sensitive information (including Names, social security numbers and employment information) for 250000 people looking for work. All those numbers were left online for at least 19 days. The Washington DC based Liberty Coalition spotted the error.

05.12.2008 Secret information leaked to Australian criminals
TOP secret Victoria Police files have been leaked to high-raking criminals, compromising state and federal anti-drugs operations, Fairfax newspapers report.

03.12.2008 Insider tried to steal data on 3.2 million Canadians
An IT manager of a Canadian direct marketing firm has been accused of absconding with a copy of the company's customer database.

03.12.2008 Data on 6000 American military men could be compromised
U.S. Army medical officials in southeast Germany waited nearly two months before notifying more than 6,000 beneficiaries of a possible security breach regarding their personal information stored on a lost laptop computer.

01.12.2008 Transatlantic survey shows nervous workers offer to double their hours
Half of workers will use their privileged IT access rights or bribe the IT department to snoop around the network to get the insider track on who’s next to go! London 1st December 2008 - It would seem desperate times call for desperate measures as a survey released today shows that workers...

25.11.2008 Eyewear corporation under hacker attack: data on 59 thousand employees leaked
More than 59,000 employees of Luxottica Group may be at risk after a hacker made off with their personal information in the latest incident of a massive corporate data breach.

25.11.2008 Starbucks leak: not a coffee, but data on 97000 employees
Starbucks Corp. confirmed Monday that a laptop containing private information on 97,000 employees was stolen Oct. 29. The information included names, addresses and Social Security numbers, according to an undated memo addressed to affected employees.

15.11.2008 Data on 344 thousand patients stolen at Florida University
University of Florida officials have notified about 330,000 current and former dental patients that an unauthorized intruder recently accessed a College of Dentistry computer server storing their personal information.

11.11.2008 Data on 4,500 SNU Students Leaked Online
Personal information of more than 4,500 students and professors at Seoul National University was leaked online and has been available to anonymous people.

08.11.2008 Personal data of 85 thousand North Carolina residents stolen
A state-owned laptop computer with personal information about 85,045 North Carolina residents was stolen last month in Atlanta, state officials announced today.

07.11.2008 Laptop containing 100 thousand personal files stolen from Baylor Health Care
A laptop computer containing limited health information on 100,000 patients was stolen from an employee's car in September, Baylor Health Care System Inc. said Monday.

05.11.2008 Accidentally found flash-drive contained access codes to UK Gateway system
A memory stick was found in a pub car park containing confidential passcodes to the online Government Gateway system, which covers everything from tax returns to parking tickets.

31.10.2008 Joe the Plumber as another victim of US presidential campaign
A pair of prominent Republicans supporting presidential candidate John McCain urged the Ohio inspector general yesterday to investigate the use of government computers to find personal information about "Joe the Plumber."

24.10.2008 Security Breach at KRM Management can lead to identity fraud of 5700 employees
Fresno, CA, USA (KFSN) -- Fresno police say everything from electronics to personal items was taken from a northwest Fresno office. Including a computer with confidential information on more than five thousand city employees ... Like social security numbers.

22.10.2008 800 Hospital patient data revealed
A security breach in an online computer system at Mary Washington Hospital exposed the private medical information of some of its maternity patients.

15.10.2008 Deloitte loses data on 100 pensioners
A laptop containing personal details of at least 100,000 pension scheme members has been stolen from an employee of the accountancy firm Deloitte.

14.10.2008 British Ministry of Defence is defenceless againts breaches.
An investigation is under way into the disappearance of a computer hard drive which could contain the details of about 100,000 Armed Forces personnel.

11.10.2008 Deutsche Telekom loses 17 million of personal records
The data breach was uncovered after Der Spiegel magazine said it managed to access customer information via a third party.

04.10.2008 E-bay sells british secrets for Ј17
Police are investigating the sale of a digital camera containing MI6 images of terror suspects on eBay, the Foreign Office has confirmed.

26.09.2008 High-speed data breach: hacker tried to blackmail Mazeratti
A resident of Solana Beach, Calif., has been charged with stealing customer data from luxury car seller Maserati North America Inc. and then trying to extort money from the company by threatening to publicly disclose the details of the system intrusion.

23.09.2008 Son of democratic congressman accused of breaching Sarah Palin’s mailbox.
FBI agents served a federal search warrant to 20-year-old University of Tennessee student David Kernell early Sunday morning in their investigation into the hacking of Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin's e-mail last week.

22.09.2008 United Arab Emirates credit network attacked by hackers
An international investigation is under way to find hackers believed to have stolen information from financial servers in the UAE to make fraudulent credit and debit card purchases in the US.

18.09.2008 Largest Data Leak in Norway: data on 4 million Norwegians sent to media
Norway's national tax office mistakenly sent confidential information about nearly 85% of Norwegian adults to nine major media groups, an error the government described as "extremely serious".

14.09.2008 Insider stole 2 million personal entries from Countrywide real estate database
Countrywide Financial Corp. is offering two years of free credit monitoring to customers whose sensitive personal information, including Social Security numbers, allegedly was stolen from the home lender's computer files.

11.09.2008 GS Caltex Faces Class Action Suit over S. Korea's Largest Data Leak
GS Caltex Co., South Korea's second-largest oil refiner, faced a class action suit brought by 500 clients seeking compensation for a recent leak of their private data, their representative said.

07.09.2008 Largest Data Breach in Korea: Data Stolen on 11 mln. Korean citizens.
Police detained two employees of a subcontractor of GS Caltex and two of their friends, Sunday, for the alleged theft of personal information of more than 11 million customers of the oil refiner.

04.09.2008 Ukrainian hacker group caught for selling personal databases
The hacker group had been arrested and accused of copying and reselling confidential databases which belonged to the Ukrainian government.

01.09.2008 13,800 personal data lost at National Technical Institute for the Deaf
A laptop stolen Monday contained the names, birth dates and Social Security numbers of about 12,700 applicants to the National Technical Institute for the Deaf and another 1,100 people at Rochester Institute of Technology.

29.08.2008 BNY Mellon breach rises to 12.5 million affected
Bank of New York Mellon Corp. said Thursday that a security breach involving the loss of personal information is much larger than previously reported, affecting about 12.5 million people, up from 4.5 million.

27.08.2008 Computer with one million customers’ data sold on eBay
The eBay computer scandal which saw the loss of personal data on a million bank customers is to be investigated by the Information Commissioner.

27.08.2008 Best Western breach – fiction or largest hack of summer?
The story of breach in the computer system of the largest hotel network Best Western is grossly unsubstantiated. The story started on August 23 when Sunday Herald printed a sensational article about the largest data leakage incident of this summer.

20.08.2008 Barclaycard holders personal data sent out by mail
Britain's biggest credit card company has sent out the wrong account details to thousands of customers.

18.08.2008 Dominion Enterprises Announced Data Breach in Business Division
Dominion Enterprises announced that a computer server within InterActive Financial Marketing Group (IFMG), a division of Dominion Enterprises located in Richmond, Virginia, was hacked into and illegally accessed by an unknown and unauthorized third party between November 2007 and February 2008.

09.08.2008 BBC apologises after children’s personal data stolen
The BBC has apologised to parents and started an investigation after a memory stick containing the personal data of hundreds of children was stolen.

07.08.2008 Retail Hacking Ring Charged for Stealing and Distributing Credit and Debit Card Numbers from Major U.S. Retailers
Eleven perpetrators allegedly involved in the hacking of nine major U.S. retailers and the theft and sale of more than 40 million credit and debit card numbers have been charged with numerous crimes, including conspiracy, computer intrusion, fraud and identity theft, Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey, U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts Michael J. Sullivan, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California Karen P. Hewitt, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Benton J. Campbell and U.S. Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan announced today.

06.08.2008 33,000 travelers’ data stolen at San Francisco airport
A stolen laptop has prompted administrators of a popular airport program to implement new security measures.

06.08.2008 Anheuser-Busch loses data on 150,000 people
About 150,000 people nationwide have been affected by the theft of laptops with personal information about current and former employees of Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc.

29.07.2008 Grady hospital facing troubles: data theft among them
The FBI is investigating the theft of medical records of patients at Grady Memorial Hospital, officials said Friday.

24.07.2008 Bristol-Myers Squibb employees data stolen
Bristol-Myers Squibb officials last week confirmed that a non-encrypted backup tape containing the personal data of current and former-employees and their dependants was stolen 4 June 2008, from a delivery truck carrying the device.

23.07.2008 US capital residents found their personal information in trash bin
Documents with Washington residents' personal information, including Social Security numbers and canceled checks, turned up Tuesday in a trash bin in an alley in northwest Washington.

15.07.2008 Missouri National Guard weak at defending soldiers’ personal data
The Missouri National Guard has called for a criminal investigation after it learned that the personal information of as many as 2,000 soldiers had been breached.

09.07.2008 Kansas insider steals patients’ data
The Wichita Radiological Group received an anonymous call saying their patient records may have been stolen. On Monday, the executive director reported the information to Wichita police.

09.07.2008 Altruist hackers help reveal private data records
Top German market research firm TNS Infratest/Emnid has 'lost' 41,000 private data records of its survey participants, the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) has revealed in its official organ Die Datenschleuder.

08.07.2008 Florida Donors Registry Breach Exposed 55,000
Florida state health officials say a security breach in the Organ and Tissue Donor Registry may have exposed thousands of donors' personal information, including their social security numbers.

27.06.2008 20,000 Live Listed as Dead
The U.S. Social Security Administration inadvertently compromised the personal information of more than 20,000 people by listing them in the Death Master File (DMF) while they were still alive, the agency's inspector general has determined.

26.06.2008 Scottish Ambulance Service Loses Data on 1 Million
The Ambulance Service of Scotland has lost a disc containing the encrypted 999 call details of almost one million people.

26.06.2008 California Public Employees Under ID Theft Risk
The state Department of Consumer Affairs has sent letters to 5,000 employees, contractors and board members warning them of a security breach that has compromised their names and social security numbers.

25.06.2008 Germany: 500,000 Personal Data Accidentally Published on Internet
A slip-up in Germany led to residential rolls on half a million people becoming freely accessible on the internet, an investigative programme on German TV said Monday.

24.06.2008 Data Breach at Florida’s Bank Atlantic
Customers of one Bay Area bank should check their bank statements and apply for a new debit card after a data breach last week, according to fragmentary news from Tampa, Florida, USA.

20.06.2008 Citibank Hacked - $750,000 Stolen
A computer intrusion into a Citibank server that processes ATM withdrawals led to two Brooklyn men making hundreds of fraudulent withdrawals from New York City cash machines in February, pocketing at least $750,000 in cash, according to federal prosecutors.

17.06.2008 Canadian Farmers in Suit Over Lost Data
Dozens of Manitobans have joined a class-action lawsuit over a stolen laptop that contained private information from 32,000 Canadian farmers, according to a Saskatchewan law office.

11.06.2008 Utah hospital billing records from over 2 million patients stolen
Billing records of 2.2 million patients at the University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics were stolen from a vehicle after a courier failed to immediately take them to a storage center, authorities said Tuesday.

09.06.2008 Bank of New York Mellon: 1B for Data Breach?
Got an extra $886 million in your budget this year? This was the “breach-of-the-week” story in late May, but the lost tape with 4.5 million names on it keeps getting more expensive for Bank of New York Mellon.

05.06.2008 25 Firms of the BNY’s List
The companies affected by the data breach with Bank of New York Mellon's computer tape reported last week are identified.

04.06.2008 Canada: 32,000 Farmers Under ID Theft Threat
It took more than two months for a federal government agency to alert 32,000 farmers, including 7,000 Manitobans, that their private information was in unknown hands after a laptop was stolen.

02.06.2008 A Hacker Broke Into Pennsylvania School Server
Parent, student data compromised at Pocono Mountain, Pennsylvania, the United States.

31.05.2008 Former EADS chief charged for insider trading
Former EADS co-chief executive Noel Forgeard has been charged with insider trading over selling company stock in the months before the European aviation group revealed production delays with its A380 superjumbo.

30.05.2008 Financial Services Company Loses More Than 45,000 Customers’ Data
Computer equipment containing personal information on more than 45,000 customers and employees was stolen five months ago from State Street Corporation, an American financial services company.

29.05.2008 India Experiences Biggest Data Theft
It could well be one of the biggest data thefts in the country. An Ahmedabad-based BPO owner, Maulik Dave, has been accused of data theft from a Florida-based company and selling them to its rival companies in the US.

28.05.2008 Oklahoma Auction Reveals 5,000 Personal Data
The Oklahoma Corporation Commission is removing hard drives from all surplus computer equipment after a server containing the names and Social Security numbers of thousands of residents was sold at an auction recently.

26.05.2008 TJX employee fired for exposing information security holes
TJX Companies, the mammoth US retailer whose substandard security led to the world's biggest credit card heist, has fired an employee after he left posts in an online forum that made disturbing claims about security practices at the store where he worked.

23.05.2008 Bank of New York Mellon lost data on 4.5 million customers
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal today announced that a storage company for a New York bank lost an unencrypted backup tape containing Social Security numbers and bank account information belonging to as many as hundreds of thousands of Connecticut consumers and personal information of millions more nationwide.

16.05.2008 Oklahoma State University – 70,000 Students and Staff at ID Theft Risk
A breach in an Oklahoma State University (OSU) computer server exposed names, addresses and Social Security numbers of about 70,000 students, staff and faculty who bought parking and transit services permits in the past six years.

13.05.2008 Chile’s Largest Data Leak: 6m Affected
A hacker who identified himself as «Anonymous Coward» stole personal data of 6 million Chileans – reportedly including a daughter of the president – and posted it briefly on the Internet.

10.05.2008 Italian Citizens’ Incomes Made Public
The incomes and tax details of every Italian citizen have been published online in a move that has outraged the country's rich and famous.

09.05.2008 HSBC Loses Data Again
The loss of a computer server from a Kwun Tong (Hongkong) branch of Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation could lead to the leakage of private data of 159,000 customers.

02.05.2008 88,000 Staten Island Patients at ID Theft Risk
Desktop and backup hard drive with personal information of about 88,000 patients were stolen 4 months ago from an office of Staten Island University Hospital, a hospital situated in one of five boroughs of New York City, USA.

08.04.2008 370,000 HSBC Customers' Data Lost
The HSBC banking group has admitted losing a computer disc with the details of 370,000 customers.

27.03.2008 Insider Gets 42 Months for Stealing 1m Customer Records
A former programmer at Birmingham, Alabama-based Compass Bank who stole a hard drive containing 1 million customer records and used some of that information to commit debit-card fraud was sentenced last week to 42 months in prison by an Alabama district court judge.

25.03.2008 Facebook Security Breach Exposes Many Including Paris Hilton
A security lapse on the online social networking site Facebook has allowed its users to gain access to vast libraries of private photographs, including one of Paris Hilton drinking beer with her friends.

18.03.2008 4.2m Hit by Data Breach at Hannaford
Hannaford Bros., an American supermarket chain yesterday said a breach of its computer system potentially exposed 4.2 million credit and debit card numbers and has led to about 1,800 fraud cases to date.

16.03.2008 Spears' Medical Records a Target for Insiders
UCLA Medical Center, a hospital located on the campus of the University of California, is taking steps to fire at least 13 employees and has suspended at least six others for snooping in the confidential medical records of pop star Britney Spears during her recent hospitalization in its psychiatric unit.

11.03.2008 40,000 Blue Cross Members at Risk of Identity Theft
The Blue-Cross Blue-Shield’s Western New York branch says it is notifying tens of thousands of its members about identity theft concerns after one of it's company laptops went missing.

09.03.2008 MTV Lost Data of 5,000 Employees
Computer files with confidential data on about 5,000 employees at MTV Networks were breached by someone outside the company, the network told employees on Friday in a memo.

28.02.2008 103,000 Doctors’ Personal Data May Be at Risk for Identity Theft
The data leak involving a national health insurance company and more than 100-thousand doctors took place in Wisconsin and ten other American states...

22.02.2008 28 000 Students’ Data Stolen
CBC News reports a theft of laptop with the information on thousands of Newfoundland students on February 21st. The laptop was stolen amongst several others from the school district’s office in downtown St. John, Nfld...

17.10.2007 Theft of Home Depot laptop puts 10,000 at risk
Home Depot on Wednesday confirmed a company laptop was stolen that contains personal information about approximately 10,000 employees of the do-it-yourself retailing giant - read more: networkworld.com and computerworld.com

17.10.2007 Laptops with sensitive TSA contractor data stolen
The personal details of nearly 4,000 US citizens - including commercial truck drivers who transport hazardous materials - were on two laptops stolen from a third-party contractor working with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) in the US - read more: scmagazine.com

15.10.2007 Administaff notifies calendar year 2006 worksite employees of missing laptop
Administaff, Inc. (NYSE:ASF), a leading provider of human resources services for small and medium-sized businesses, today announced that a company laptop computer containing personal information about individuals who were Administaff worksite employees during calendar year 2006 has been reported...

11.10.2007 Now Pfizer employees' spouses suffer data compromise
Fourth security failure to touch Pfizer employees this year - read more: computerworld.com

23.09.2007 Minnesota workers had information on stolen backup tape
More than 1.3 million individuals, businesses or other entities have been affected by the security breach - read more: columbusdispatch.com

21.09.2007 GAO: VA at risk of another data breach
Weaknesses in the physical controls of laptops and other hardware at U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) facilities has put the agency in danger of suffering another data breach, according to the Government Accountability Office - read more: scmagazineus.com

18.09.2007 NHS patient data sold on eBay
- read more: zdnet.co.uk

18.09.2007 Connecticut says data on its money was stolen
Calling it an 'unfathomable' breach of security, Gov. M. Jodi Rell of Connecticut said yesterday that a computer backup tape stolen in June from a car in Ohio contained bank account and other sensitive financial data for nearly all Connecticut state agencies - read more: nytimes.com

18.09.2007 TD Ameritrade was warned of possible data breach months ago
A data breach that exposed the names and contact information of the more than 6.2 million customers of TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. may have occurred as far back as a year ago - and possibly even earlier than that - read more: computerworld.com

12.09.2007 TennCare provider loses patient information on thousands
67,000 TennCare enrollees at risk of identity theft after a courier service loses their personal information. - read more: wate.com

08.09.2007 CHR patient data stolen
Sensitive information falls into wrong hands when thieves hit health region. - read more: calsun.canoe.ca

07.09.2007 McKesson: stolen computers contain patient information
Execs at the health-care services company are unsure how much identifying information was contained on the patients documented in the missing machines. - read more: informationweek.com

07.09.2007 ID theft updated for the 21st century
Federal agents and prosecutors sounded a warning Thursday to the millions of people who use peer-to-peer software for downloading music or video files: "You are handing criminals the keys to your computer." - read more: seattlepi.nwsource.com

06.09.2007 More than 4,000 De Anza students at risk for ID theft, school says
CUPERTINO, Calif. -- De Anza College announced Thursday that thousands of former students might be at risk for identity fraud after an instructor's laptop computer, containing students' personal information, was stolen last month. - read more: nbc11.com

06.09.2007 USC investigates student information found on the Web
COLUMBIA, S.C. --The University of South Carolina is looking into what it called an "accidental disclosure" of private student information on the Internet, school spokesman Russ McKinney said Thursday. - read more: charlotte.com

04.09.2007 Pfizer workers' identities at risk
Some 34,000 Pfizer Inc. workers, including some current and former employees in Michigan, are at risk for identity theft, according to a letter to employees obtained by The Detroit News. - read more: detnews.com

01.09.2007 Computer with 6,000 patient records stolen from hospital
BALTIMORE - A desktop computer containing the personal information of 5,783 Johns Hopkins Hospital patients was stolen in mid-July, hospital officials said. - read more: examiner.com

31.08.2007 Connecticut revenue agency reports missing laptop
Connecticut Gov. Jodi Rell has ordered the state's IT agency to implement new controls for protecting sensitive data on laptops after a recent theft exposed data on 106,000 taxpayers in the state. - read more: pcworld.com

31.08.2007 Sick Kids doctor loses data on 3,300 patients
Six weeks after Ontario's privacy commissioner ordered the Hospital for Sick Children not to remove electronic health records from the hospital, a doctor lost an external hard drive containing such records at the country's busiest airport. - read more: thestar.com

31.08.2007 Monster.com data theft also hit US govt job site
BOSTON, Aug 30 (Reuters) - About 146,000 people using a U.S. government jobs Web site had their personal information stolen by hackers who broke into computers at Monster Worldwide Inc . - read more: reuters.com

30.08.2007 Maryland Department of the Environment reports stolen laptop
A Maryland Department of the Environment laptop computer stolen from an employee's car last weekend held personal information, including Social Security numbers, for 10,000 residents registered with one of four state boards. - read more: baltimoresun.com

27.08.2007 Personal data for 35,000 vets stolen
WASHINGTON - Personal records including addresses and Social Security numbers of more than 35,000 veterans and their families were stolen this month from the offices of a POW support organization in Texas, officials announced Friday. - read more: military.com

23.08.2007 Grads warned about potential identity theft after thieves steal school computer
WINDSOR, CONNECTICUT - A burglary earlier this month at the Loomis Chaffee School has potentially left the personal information, including Social Security numbers, of several hundred past students vulnerable, officials say. - read more: journalinquirer.com

22.08.2007 Apology sent over CalPERS privacy error
State pension fund officials apologized Tuesday to hundreds of thousands of retirees whose Social Security numbers were printed on brochures mailed out last week and vowed to take immediate steps to ensure that such an error does not happen again. - read more: sacbee.com

22.08.2007 Off-network security: a crisis at hand
When Redemtech first considered a survey to measure the severity of the current off-network data security crisis, the reasons to investigate the topic were abundant. - read more: redemtech.com

22.08.2007 Personal data on barbers, cosmetologists stolen
At least 10,000 barbers and cosmetologists whose personal information was contained in a fireproof safe stolen Friday from the Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists office on Pennsylvania Avenue. - read more: dailymail.com

21.08.2007 Suspect named in TJX credit card probe
Authorities have zeroed in on a Ukrainian man they suspect played a key role in the sale of many credit card numbers stolen from TJX Cos. in what is considered the biggest corporate data breach to date. - read more: boston.com

16.08.2007 Second security breach hits Pfizer
The latest security cock-up involving the Viagra maker concerns the theft of two laptops containing details of 950 Pfizer contract workers from the car of an employee of consulting firm Axia. - read more: channelregister.co.uk

14.08.2007 The TJX Companies, Inc. estimates liability from computer systems intrusions
The Company estimated its potential liability from the computer intrusion(s) and recorded an after-tax charge of $118 million, or $.25 per share. - read more: businesswire.com

11.08.2007 Police on terror alert over theft of top secret records on computer database
A major security alert has been sparked after the theft of a computer database containing thousands of top secret telephone records from police investigations into terrorism and organised crime. - read more: mailonsunday.co.uk

09.08.2007 National data breach notification debate heats up
The Cyber Security Industry Alliance and others are urging Congress to adopt a national standard for consumer protection and notification. - read more: informationweek.com

08.08.2007 FaceTime exposes customer contact data on its Web site
Instant messaging security vendor FaceTime Communications Inc. confirmed today that programming errors caused customer contact information to be exposed on its Web site. - read more: computerworld.com

07.08.2007 Los Alamos nuclear lab loses more data
The error-prone Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory has inadvertently released highly classified nuclear weapons material again, this time by email. - read more: techworld.com

07.08.2007 CNBC's Gasparino: Merrill Lynch ID theft may affect 33,000 employees
A "major identity-theft incident" has occurred at brokerage giant Merrill Lynch that may affect more than 30,000 employees, CNBC's Charlie Gasparino reported. - read more: cnbc.com

06.08.2007 Alabama AG announces arrest in identity-theft case
Alabama Attorney General Troy King announced today that an investigation conducted by his office, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Alabama, the Internal Revenue Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, has resulted in the arrest of a Montgomery woman for identity...

03.08.2007 Privacy commissioner releases privacy breach guidelines
New guidelines have been drawn up to help businesses take the right steps after a privacy breach, including notifying people after their personal and financial information has been stolen, lost or mistakenly disclosed, says the privacy commissioner of Canada, Jennifer Stoddart. - read more:...

03.08.2007 Computer security problems found at IRS
WASHINGTON - IRS employees ignored security rules and turned over sensitive computer information to a caller posing as a technical support person, according to a government study. i> - read more: time.com

28.07.2007 70,000 private details stolen
US - Yuba County scrambled this week to contact 70,000 people whose names and personal information were on a laptop computer stolen from the new Child Support Services office in Linda. - read more: appeal-democrat.com

28.07.2007 Virginia Beach employees' identities compromised after fraud investigation
Virginia Beach investigators are urging certain school and city employees to be on the look out for any sign of identity theft after a police investigation revealed compromised personal information from a benefit plan. - read more: wtkr.com

27.07.2007 5,000 student loan customers' info on stolen laptop
American Education Services -- the revenue-generating arm of the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency -- has sent letters to 5,184 student loan customers telling them that their personal information was on a laptop stolen in a burglary at a subcontractor's headquarters in Livermore,...

26.07.2007 Aflac reports laptop detailing 152,000 clients stolen
The laptop contained the clients' names, addresses, birth dates, and policy details, according to Laura Kane, a spokeswoman at Aflac's headquarters in Columbus, Georgia. It was used by a worker of Tokyo-based Tsusan Company and stolen on a commuter train July 17. Aflac wanted to send letters...

26.07.2007 Marines' personal data exposed on Web
Some Marines' personal information, including names and Social Security numbers, was inadvertently posted online recently, exposing more than 10,000 leathernecks to potential identity theft, the Corps announced. - read more: marinecorpstimes.com

24.07.2007 Patient information exposed in hospital security lapse
INDIANAPOLIS, US - A security lapse at St. Vincent Hospital in Indianapolis compromised the names, addresses and Social Security numbers of about 51,000 patients. - read more: theindychannel.com

21.07.2007 Contractor mishandles private data on 580,000 military personnel
Government contractor SAIC disclosed late Friday 20 that it had transmitted personal data on 580,000 military personnel and their families over the Internet without encrypting the information, and that the data had been stored on an unsecured server, putting the individuals at potential risk of...

19.07.2007 Texas state site leaks personal data
- read more: pcworld.com

17.07.2007 Internal errors blamed for Franklin employees Social Security scare
CANTON, US - The Social Security numbers of 1,800 present and former Jackson Local Schools' employees were at risk of public access on a county-maintained Web site. - read more: timesreporter.com

14.07.2007 Disney alerts movie-club members to privacy breach
Credit-card information for an undisclosed number of Disney Movie Club members worldwide was reportedly offered for sale -- illegally -- by an employee of a sales account-processing company who was then arrested by federal agents - read more: orlandosentinel.com and networkworld.com

10.07.2007 Resona 'lost 980,000 customer records'
Resona 'lost 980,000 customer records'

27.06.2007 Credit card numbers found in computer file
The discovery of thousands of credit card numbers in a computer file where they shouldn't have been stored has prompted Milwaukee PC to warn 65,000 customers of a possible security breach - read more: jsonline.com

26.06.2007 $710,000 is data theft's first bill
The Strickland administration (Columbus, Ohio) plans to ask the state Controlling Board today to release initial funds to pay for the state's response to last week's theft of a data-rich computer backup tape. - read more: columbusdispatch.com

22.06.2007 Bank warns of possible ID theft
TEXAS CITY - Texas First Bank is notifying about 4,000 customers that their personal information could have been compromised when thieves last month stole a laptop computer during a car theft in Dallas. - read more: khou.com

17.06.2007 Identity theft may be problem for TAMUCC students
CORPUS CHRISTI - The personal information of thousands of students at Texas A&M Corpus Christi was recently lost in a foreign country. A professor vacationing off the coast of Africa took the data with him on a small computer storage device - read more: kristv.com Sam Gerrans, Senior...

15.06.2007 iPhone, Gmail and blogs - a corporate security nightmare say analysts
Analyst companies Forrester and Gartner have both warned this week that the entrance of consumer technologies into the enterprise is impossible to eliminate and challenges traditional security models - read more: silicon.com

02.06.2007 Bank loses details on 62,000 customers in post
Bank of Scotland yesterday apologised to 62,000 customers after it confirmed that their mortgage details have been reported missing. A computer disc containing details of the mortgage accounts failed to reach the main credit reference agencies for a routine monthly update. - read more:...

01.06.2007 ChoicePoint settles with 44 states over data breach two years ago
ChoicePoint Inc. has reached a settlement with Vermont and 43 other states over allegations it failed to adequately secure consumers' personal information related to a breach of its database it disclosed in 2005 - read more: accessnorthga.com

01.06.2007 NU contacting 4,000 after security breach
EVANSTON, Ill. Northwestern University is attempting to contact about 4,000 students and applicants after it was discovered that files containing their personal information had become available online - read more: cbs2chicago.com

01.06.2007 Credit union paying for ID theft protection after info error
Jax Federal Credit Union is paying for two years' worth of identity theft protection for thousands of its members after their Social Security numbers ended up on the Internet. - read more: charlotte.bizjournals.com

28.05.2007 Europe considers new identity theft laws
The European Commission is to consider new identity fraud legislation in order to boost the fight against cyber crime. - read more: securecomputing.net.au

25.05.2007 UK database theft hurts customers
Cable & Wireless has served an injunction against a former executive following the theft of a 100,000 customer database. - read more: bbc.co.uk Sam Gerrans, Senior Technology Consultant at InfoWatch said, "While we must reserve judgment on the woman accused in the case until a court of law...

19.05.2007 Robbery puts police at risk from ID theft
WYLIE - Law officers from all across Texas could be at risk from identity theft because a database containing their personal information may have got into the wrong hands. - read more: wfaa.com Sam Gerrans, Senior Technology Consultant at InfoWatch said, "Yet another stolen-laptop case. I...

19.05.2007 Personal information of up to 90,000 compromised at Stony Brook
The personal information of 90,000 people in a Stony Brook University database was accidentally posted to Google and left there until it was discovered almost two weeks later. Read more: sbindependent.org Sam Gerrans, Senior Technology Consultant at InfoWatch said, "

17.05.2007 TK Maxx security blunder will cost $8.3bn
TJX, the owner of TK Maxx, claimed in an earnings report today that the recent security blunder which exposed the credit card details of 45 million customers has cost the company $12m. Read more: vnunet.com

17.05.2007 Parents' personal, medical information improperly discarded
The Georgia Department of Human Resources mailed letters Wednesday to all parents of infants born in Georgia between April 1, 2006, and March 16, 2007, saying that paper records containing their Social Security numbers and information about their medical histories were improperly discarded. Read...

17.05.2007 IPS student data exposed
An Indianapolis Star reporter using Google found information on at least 7,500 students and some staff members, including phone numbers, birth dates, medical information and Social Security numbers. Such student information is required to be kept private under federal law. Read more: indystar.com

15.05.2007 TJX profits drop as company takes charge for data theft
TJX posted a drop in quarterly profit due to a $12 million charge related to a recent security breach of the retailer's computer system. Read more: cnbc.com

15.05.2007 IBM contractor loses employee data
An unnamed IBM vendor has lost tapes containing sensitive information on IBM employees, the computer maker confirmed Tuesday. The tapes went missing in transit from a contractor's vehicle on Feb. 23 near the intersection of Interstate 287 and 684 -- just a few miles south of IBM's Armonk, New...

15.05.2007 London: Capital of laptop theft
Londoners had more than 15,000 laptop computers stolen last year - raising further concerns about the amount of sensitive information that may be falling into the wrong hands. Read more: silicon.com

11.05.2007 Computer Economics study: insiders top IT pros' worries
Researchers have pointed their fingers at insiders as the main security bugaboos facing enterprises. Insider misuse and unauthorised access to information by insiders are the No. 1 and No. 2 security threats worrying IT security professionals, according to Computer Economics'"Trends in IT...

11.05.2007 Data theft top concern for US companies
A recent study in the US found that 45 percent of workers take company-owned data with them when changing jobs. The study was carried out earlier this year by enterprise rights management company Liquid Machines on over 900 professionals. Read more: siliconrepublic.com

11.05.2007 Security breach at hospital: 13,000 affected
(Rochester, N.Y.) - Highland Hospital is warning patients of a security breach. A hospital spokesperson said a computer containing patient information was stolen from a business office last month. Over 13,000 people are affected. Read more: 13wham.com

10.05.2007 Kia Motors officials indicted over alleged technology leakage
SUWON, May 10 (Yonhap) -- Nine former and incumbent officials of Kia Motors, South Korea's No. 2 automaker, were indicted on charges of illegally transferring key carmaking technologies to China, the first such case ever brought to light, prosecutors said Thursday. Read more:...

05.05.2007 Laptop theft risk to M&S staff IDs
More than 20,000 staff at Marks & Spencer have been told they may be at risk of identity crime after a laptop computer was stolen, it has been reported. Read more: guardian.co.uk

04.05.2007 TSA loses hard drive with personal info
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Transportation Security Administration has lost a computer hard drive containing Social Security numbers, bank data and payroll information for about 100,000 employees. Read more: myway

03.05.2007 Stolen NHS laptop contains payroll data on 10,000 staff
A laptop computer holding personal and financial information on 10,000 NHS staff has been stolen from a hospital in Cornwall. The machine containing payroll data - including names, addresses and bank details - was stolen from the Royal Cornwall Hospitals trust, which hosts the payroll for NHS...

02.05.2007 Union allegations spark J.P. Morgan probe of alleged data breach
New York, NY (AHN) - J.P. Morgan Chase has started a probe into allegations by a large workers union that documents containing financial information of its customers has been accidentally thrown in the trash in five of its branch offices in New York. Read more: allheadlinenews.com

01.05.2007 JP Morgan client data loss
JP Morgan Chase has alerted thousands of its Chicago-area millionaire clients, as well as some of its own employees, that it ca not locate a computer tape containing their account information and Social Security numbers. Read more: financialnews-us.com

27.04.2007 Caterpillar says employee data stolen
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) - Caterpillar Inc. said late Friday that a laptop computer containing personal data on employees was stolen from a benefits consultant that works with the company. wtopnews.com

26.04.2007 Game programmers suspected of stealing code worth billion USD
Police are investigating a suspected theft of software code for online game "Lineage III" which is being developed by Korea's largest game maker NCsoft. Read more: english.chosun.com

25.04.2007 Neiman says employee data stolen
Computer equipment containing files with sensitive information of nearly 160,000 current and former employees of the Neiman Marcus Group has been stolen, the company said Tuesday. Read more: wfaa.com

17.04.2007 Lost disc puts 2.9M US residents at risk of ID theft
In the biggest loss ever of personal information compiled by state government, a computer disk containing data on 2.9 million residents of the state of Georgia has been lost in shipping. The CD, which had been in the possession of contractor Affiliated Computer Services, held names, addresses, birth...

17.04.2007 Bank of America loses laptop and UPMC leaks medical data
In Charlotte, N.C. a Bank of America Corp. laptop computer containing the personal information of current and former employees was stolen affecting a “limited” number of people, while the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center was still trying to figure out how private information for...

12.04.2007 Officials' e-mails may be missing, White House says
Democrats in Congress want messages from private system for probe of U.S. attorney firings. WASHINGTON - The White House said Wednesday that it may have lost what could amount to thousands of messages sent through a private e-mail system used by political guru Karl Rove and at least 50 other top...

12.04.2007 Stolen ChildNet laptop puts 12,000 at risk of ID theft
FORT LAUDERDALE -- A laptop computer containing personal information on 12,000 ChildNet applicants has been stolen from the agency, the latest in a string of recent thefts at the nonprofit that runs Broward County's child welfare programs. Read more: www.sun-sentinel.com

11.04.2007 Lost disc puts 2.9M US residents at risk for ID theft
The disc, which had been in the possession of contractor ACS, held names, addresses, birth dates, and Medicaid numbers, in addition to Social Security numbers. Read more: iTnews

08.04.2007 Rogers data on clients found in lot
Man shocked to find personal and credit card details in scores of cable, Internet orders. Read more: Toronto Star

04.04.2007 Ex-Morgan Stanley worker held on data theft charge
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors arrested a former Morgan Stanley & Co. (MS.N: Quote, Profile, Research employee on Wednesday on charges relating to the theft of proprietary information about the brokerage firm's hedge fund clients. Full story:

29.03.2007 Japan's biggest ever leak
The largest ever leak of personal data in Japan's history has occurred. An insider from the print and electronics giant Dai Nippon Printing stole a disk with the private details of almost 9 million people. Fortunately, the criminal was caught. InfoWatch experts consider that the man got off...

24.03.2007 English banks to answer for rubbish
The story of personal data found in an English bank's rubbish bins continues. The Information Commissioner's Office found that 11 major companies, primarily banks have broken information security rules. Now the malefactors will have to keep a watch on their working methods with confidential...

22.03.2007 WellPoint leaks 75,000 clients' private data
21/03/07 The Blue Cross Association and the Blue Shield are informing clients of a lost disk which contained the personal data of around 75,000 people. The disk had had its security measures removed not long before the incident occurred. According to InfoWatch Analytical Center, this is...

10.03.2007 Personal data goes straight into search engines
With increasing regularity, personal information is turning up on websites. As a result, it is being picked up by search engines and therefore accessible by anyone on the Internet. For example, last week, the personal details of patients from a hospital in Westerly, in the US, appeared on an...

08.03.2007 Government moves in on 14 Wall Street insiders
The US government has identified 14 people whom it suspects of insider trading. The accused include influential financial company employees, brokers, lawyers and hedge fund managers. Together, they made 15 million USD on the basis of insider information, making this probably the biggest case of...

07.03.2007 Mobile leaks from public organizations become the norm
Another slew of leaks from mobile devices has hit universities and hospitals. Instances of tens of thousands of victims and flagrant neglect of procedure now no longer surprise us. According to the InfoWatch Analytical Center, the public is now used to it. The Gulf Coast medical center, Tennessee...

03.03.2007 135,000 students’ private details leak from John Hopkins University
John Hopkins University has lost back-up devices with 135,000 students’ private details. According to the InfoWatch Analytical Center, even if no single person falls victim to identity theft the cost to the university will still be around 15-20 million USD. Nine magnetic tapes...

23.02.2007 NBS to pay one million pounds sterling for leak
The British Financial Services Authority has come back with a verdict regarding the leak from NBS back in August. The company is obliged to pay a fine of 1 million pounds for the leak of clients' personal data. InfoWatch's analytical center points out that this sum is a drop in the...

22.02.2007 Insider costs DuPont 400 million USD
A former employee at DuPont has been found guilty of intellectual property theft worth 400 million USD, which the insider intended to pass to a competitor, Victrex. The court sentenced the accused to 10 years behind bars and imposed a fine of 250,000 USD. DuPont had called in the FBI to investigate...

20.02.2007 American government departments allow leak
American government departments have long had the dubious distinction of being a leading source of personal data leaks. Recent reports simply confirm this reputation. The Department of Veterans' Affairs has again lost private details (this time, those of 1.8 million people). And the FBI is...

15.02.2007 Patients at American hospitals in danger
The largest ever leak of personal data in Japan's history has occurred. An insider from the print and electronics giant Dai Nippon Printing stole a disk with the private details of almost 9 million people. Fortunately, the criminal was caught. InfoWatch experts consider that the man got off...

14.02.2007 American leak reaches Korea
The damage caused by a leak from TJX Companies continues to mount. Hot on the heels of Canada and Britain, Korean nationals are now suffering too. InfoWatch experts think it is not yet possible to ascertain the total number of those affected, nor the extent of the damage to TJX itself. Meanwhile, in...

13.02.2007 American politicians become victims of leak
As the result of a leak from the US government, 150 members of the Legislature have come under threat of identity theft, and some senators are demanding that security procedures be checked in federal organizations. Meanwhile, the Department for Constitutional Affairs is preparing to increase the...

08.02.2007 Morgan Stanley insider gets 26 years
In New York, the court case concerning the theft of Morgan Stanley’s client database has ended with the an insider being found guilty of causing the leak. The court sentenced Ira Chilowitz to 26 years in prison and an 850,000 USD fine. InfoWatch experts consider that this case will serve as...

07.02.2007 Leaks in Israel and South Korea
Two large leaks of personal data came to light over the past week – in Israel and in South Korea. In both cases, access to the information was made available via the Internet. In the Israeli case, the Population Registry found its way online. And in South Korean case, governmental and other...

07.02.2007 US medics expose patients to possible identity theft
In America, recently hardly a week has gone by without news of patients at some hospital or other coming under threat of identity theft. Added to that, there are occasional leaks from the Department of Veterans’ Affairs. Last week, there were two cases, one concerning a medical organization...

01.02.2007 Leaks from KB Home and Rutgers University
Last week turned up only two cases of confidential information loss from mobile computers, namely, the theft of a laptop from a professor at Rutgers University, and a laptop which went missing from a building company in Berkley. Both cases involved sensitive personal information. At the same time,...

31.01.2007 Insiders attack welfare families
A leak from the Hawaii health department puts 11,500 families on the island under threat of identity theft. At the same time, the personal data and income information of more than 5,000 students at Vanguard University has been stolen. In both cases, the victims are recipients of welfare support....

30.01.2007 XEROX suffers a major leak
A large number of XEROX employees are picketing the company offices in Wilsonville. The cause of their dissatisfaction is the company’s gross violation of the rules on private data storage and its subsequent shoddy treatment of those affected. A laptop with the personal data was stolen back...

25.01.2007 Financial information theft from TJX
A leak of various financial information – including transaction details and credit card numbers – has tarnished the reputation of TJX Companies. Thousands of customers from the US, Canada, Britain and Ireland were affected. Representatives of the company are hard put to assess the...

24.01.2007 Not easy to spot a leak: Korbina Telekom
There have been several large leaks of private citizens’ data over the last few months in Russia. The Valuehost hosting company had its client database put on the open market, as did 10 large Russian commercial banks. And now, we have the case of Korbina Telekom. In each case, experts have not...

23.01.2007 Leaks in North Carolina and England
Information continues to come in from news agencies regarding leaks from last year. Either the leak was not noticed immediately, or it was thought that the stolen data would be restored very quickly. North Carolina’s finance department did not immediately report a leak since it believed that...

17.01.2007 Leaks from Tower Perrin, ERS, Idaho University and school in North Charleston
The InfoWatch analytical center calculates that the most common information leak channel in 2006 was mobile devices. As though confirming this view, at the beginning of January news agencies continued reporting multiple internal security incidents arising from laptop use affecting tens of thousands...

16.01.2007 Did prostitutes sell their client database?
According to Moscow’s media, a database made up of “prostitutes’, pimps’ and brothel owners’ address books” is now for sale on the open market. The database contains explicit personal details on the private patrons of the aforementioned places of ill repute....

10.01.2007 InfoWatch incident database report for December, 2006
The InfoWatch analytical center presents its second monthly report on leaks, cases of sabotage, internal data violations and other related incidents.

27.12.2006 Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers victims of leak
Last week, a large New York insurance company sent out notifications to 42,000 city employees informing them that their private personal data was now in the hands of criminals. Thieves carried away an entire safe containing backup devices with the personal details of company clients. InfoWatch...

26.12.2006 Incidents of sabotage continue to increase
A medical company system administrator placed a logic bomb on 70 servers, but the danger was spotted in time by a colleague and the saboteur is due to go to court. InfoWatch experts remind us that this is a typical example of the kind of damage a saboteur can wreak on a company. At the beginning...

20.12.2006 A giant leak from Boeing
The American giant, Boeing, has suffered a massive personal data leak with almost 400,000 employees now under threat of identity theft. Thieves stole a laptop with the confidential information from the car of one of the company’s employees. According to InfoWatch’s analytical center,...

20.12.2006 One million people’s private details leak from University of California
As the result of a database leak from the University of California, 800,000 people now face the possibility of identity theft. This is the third-largest US leak this year. It is surpassed only by the theft of veterans’ data in May and the theft of a notebook from ACS in October. InfoWatch...

15.12.2006 Insider activity overview for November, 2006
This is the InfoWatch analytical center’s first monthly report on information leaks, cases of sabotage, internal violations and other similar incidents.

14.12.2006 Secret US document leak from base in Japan
A leak of secret documents from an air force base in Japan has occurred, affecting both the Japanese and the Americans. The information – now in unknown hands – concerns the location of military cargo supplies inside Iraq and Kuwait. Moreover, the laptop in question held assorted...

13.12.2006 Ten Russian banks simultaneously permit database leakage
Anyone who wishes may, for 2,000 roubles (78 USD / 57 Euro) acquire access to “Russia’s Bank Credit Refusals and Stop Lists” database which holds 3 million records of late payment and non-payment of credit, as well as credit refusal.

07.12.2006 American drivers again at risk of identity theft
Fresh news from America about missing laptops with confidential information has reached us. Around 38,000 clients of Kaiser Permanente Colorado, and 11,000 drivers from Pennsylvania are thought to be at risk as a result.

07.12.2006 Belgium caught passing confidential data to America
Staff from the European bureau of information protection have ascertained that the SWIFT system in Belgium has been providing details of a confidential nature to the US government for about the last five years.

06.12.2006 Private DB leak threatens Valuehost
The scandal surrounding the leak of a database belonging to Valuehost – a hosting provider – continues apace.

30.11.2006 Insiders attracted by easy credit
In America, cases of insiders using personal data for various types of fraud are becoming more frequent.

29.11.2006 Scotland Yard and Florida drivers: threats of identity theft both sides of the pond
As the result of the theft of three mobile computers in London, around 15,000 British policemen face possible identity theft.

29.11.2006 The Valuehost threat
The situation around the St. Petersburg company Web Hosting – better known by as Valuehost – is hotting up.

22.11.2006 Large-scale leak in Britain
Yet more news about stolen laptops. Among the victims this time are two large organizations: The American Internal Revenue Service and the British Nationwide Building Society. The former has acknowledged the theft of 478 mobile computers over less than five years. And the latter has sent some 60,000...

20.11.2006 Mixed fortunes for sellers of personal information
In Britain, a campaign is underway to suppress the activities of businesses and individuals which trade in the sale of confidential information. While InfoWatch is glad to see the police giving this issue their attention, it urges companies which possess confidential data to be proactive in protecting their own data themselves.

15.11.2006 Starbucks and ACS feel the effects of data leaks
Last week the InfoWatch analytical center highlighted the rise in laptop thefts and losses. This week sees yet more victims, with 60,000 Starbucks employees, 1,000 Canadian children, and students and staff from the Villanova University all affected...

14.11.2006 Atomic bomb details courtesy of the US government
The inconsistencies displayed by the US government are breathtaking. For example, it can declare war on terror and launch invasions of several states, while at the same time publishing bomb-making materials on an official site...

10.11.2006 ACS compromises personal data of 1.4 million people
Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) is no stranger to news headlines when it comes to lax security of personal data. Experts at InfoWatch point out that the latest leak at the company signifies negligence on the part of management...

09.11.2006 Insiders reach UK government departments
Even highly-protected agencies like UK government ministries are unable to prevent insider attacks. Experts at InfoWatch are astonished by the inaction of businesses and state bodies...

09.11.2006 Laptops falling like flies
Criminals are stealing laptops containing private data literally by the dozen. Data breaches are being reported one after the other, but laptop owners are doing nothing about it...

08.11.2006 Criminal insiders active in Scotland’s call centers
Criminal gangs in the UK have infiltrated dozens of call centers. Despite measures taken by the police to combat the trend, the problem remains a major threat...

02.11.2006 Outsourcing brings with it threat of major losses
GDXData, a US state contractor that secretly shipped the personal data of state employees to an Indian firm for processing, faces the prospect of hefty fines and the loss of all its state contracts.

31.10.2006 Diebold e-voting source code leaked again
Source code for voting machines has been leaked once again by a development company. The code could be used to create a counterfeit voting card that could influence election results...

31.10.2006 Private data leaked from Ontario Science Centre and Hancock Askew
A science centre in Ontario and a US accounting firm have both lost laptops containing private data in separate incidents. The latest data leaks have put over 400,000 people at risk of identity theft...

27.10.2006 More private student data leaked from University of Minnesota
Another laptop has been lost by the University of Minnesota. This time the private details of 200 students have been compromised. Experts at InfoWatch stress that there is a very simple way of minimizing the risks arising from such incidents...

26.10.2006 Private data leaked from T-Mobile USA Inc.
A T-Mobile USA employee has lost a laptop with the personal data of 43,000 former and current workers at the Deutsche Telekom subsidiary. The computer disappeared from the employee’s checked luggage during a flight...

24.10.2006 NASA secrets stolen from Russia's Star City
Thieves have stolen computer equipment belonging to NASA from Russia’s Star City outside Moscow. Confidential information belonging to the US space agency now appears to be in the hands of the criminals...

24.10.2006 Russian web hosting firm’s private databases sold online
A number of online shops are offering databases belonging to St. Petersburg web hosting operator Valuehost.ru. The databases, which reportedly come with the logins and passwords of 70,000 users, are being sold for $300...

18.10.2006 Indian insider blamed for $166M losses
An insider who stole intellectual property from Indian firm Acme Telepower and sold it to a rival, causing losses of $166 million, has prompted the company to leave the country and move to Australia...

16.10.2006 Insider machinations hit Tatneft shares
For at least a year an insider from Russian oil company Tatneft and his unemployed friend made money by putting Tatneft shares on the market, cashing them in and then returning them to their rightful owners...

12.10.2006 Personal data of 2,400 servicemen leaked from US base
A laptop containing the private details of 2,400 US servicemen has been lost. According to experts at InfoWatch, it appears that the Pentagon has once again failed to make use of encryption...

11.10.2006 College security guard arrested for identity theft
A college security guard stole private student and employee data before going on an Internet spending spree using the information...

09.10.2006 Insider at Indian telecom accused of industrial espionage
An insider at Acme Tele Power downloaded the intellectual property of his employer – patents and R&D innovations – and sent it to a rival firm...

05.10.2006 Personal data of 50,000 General Electric employees leaked
General Electric has lost a laptop containing private data on 50,000 of its employees, while medical firm Compass Health has lost a computer that had the Social Security numbers and medical records of an undisclosed number of patients...

04.10.2006 Data continues to leak from Indian call centers
British journalists have identified two Indians who buy tens of thousands of private client data records from call centers before selling them to the highest bidder...

03.10.2006 Citibank takes former employees to court in data theft case
Citibank has taken two former employees to court after they sent private client information to their personal e-mail accounts shortly before they started working for a rival bank...

28.09.2006 British police lose top-secret security plan
A laptop computer that contained a police security plan for the Labour Party conference was stolen last week. It meant a complete revision of all the security measures for the political gathering...

28.09.2006 1,000 laptops lost in last 5 years
The US Commerce Department has announced that over the last five years it has lost over 1,000 laptop computers, with a quarter of them thought to have contained personal data...

26.09.2006 Bank blamed for leak of Belarus mobile phone data
MDC, the owner of the Velcom mobile phone operator, has stressed that Belarusian law fails to protect people’s privacy and that a subcontractor was to blame for the recent leak of a database of subscriber records...

20.09.2006 Insider arrested for theft of computer with private VA records
An insider has been arrested in connection with a leak of private data on 38,000 US veterans. The suspect was a temporary worker for Unisys who had access to the company’s hardware...

18.09.2006 Data on 2 million subscribers leaked from Velcom
Velcom, one of the biggest mobile telephone operators in Belarus, has compromised yet another database of private client information. Since 2002 at least six versions of the company’s database have been leaked...

13.09.2006 BMO Bank and University of Minnesota suffer data breaches
Canada’s BMO Bank has lost a laptop computer with the personal details of 900 of its clients, while two more laptops with private records on 13,000 students were stolen from the University of Minnesota...

12.09.2006 Personal data of 2.6 million clients leaked by Chase Card Services
Five tapes containing the private details of 2.6 million Circuit City credit card holders were thrown away after being mistaken for trash...

07.09.2006 Disgruntled system administrator turns to sabotage
A disgruntled former system administrator at a provider company has left a number of clients without access to the Internet...

07.09.2006 1st OVK client database for sale on Russian black market
A database of 3,000 people who fail to keep up their credit repayments has gone on sale in Russia. There is every reason to believe that a fuller version of the database will appear in the near future with information on 3 million people...

05.09.2006 US, UK blue chips fall victim to Indian call center insiders
Employees at a Delhi call center have stolen information on clients that include British and US telecommunications firms...

01.09.2006 Hospital, bank and US government agencies hit by data breaches
Four high-profile breaches of personal data were reported last week as a result of laptop thefts. The BHHC medical group, Sovereign Bank and the US Departments for Education and Transportation are all likely to face criticism...

31.08.2006 Human error sends data on 5,000 Verizon clients to wrong address
An employee was to blame for accidentally sending private client information to the wrong e-mail address. According to experts at InfoWatch, virtually every large company needs to address the threat of human error...

24.08.2006 Confidential state data stolen from St. Petersburg office
The thieves broke into the building in nighttime raids, making off with computer equipment that contained confidential information on state orders. The culprits have been caught, but some of the stolen equipment is still missing...

24.08.2006 British online banking details sold for less than $40
Internet banking records of thousands of Britons are being sold for less than $40 in Nigeria after being gleaned from recycled computers sent to Africa by British companies...

23.08.2006 Credit history of 700,000 Russians goes on sale
Either Russia has experienced yet another huge leak of confidential information, or someone has devised an elaborate money-making “data sham”...

22.08.2006 Data breaches hit Unisys, Chevron, US DOT, Deloitte and HCA
Unisys, Chevron, the US Department of Transportation, Williams-Sonoma and hospital firm HCA have all been affected by or reported data breaches in the last few days...

18.08.2006 Private data on 38,000 US veterans disappears
The ill-fated US Department of Veterans Affairs has been hit by another data breach. This time a desktop computer with private data on 38,000 military veterans has gone missing...

17.08.2006 Private data of 133,000 Florida residents on stolen laptop
A laptop has been stolen from the car of a US Transport Department employee. The computer contained the personal details of 133,000 Florida residents, but the agency says it cannot afford to pay for credit monitoring...

16.08.2006 Private data breached at Union Pacific, Toyota
A laptop computer containing the personal data of 100 Union Pacific workers has been stolen and 1,500 people have been affected by a similar incident at a Toyota factory in the US...

15.08.2006 Insider caught selling insurance firm’s client data online
A consultant at an insurance firm has been caught trying to sell the personal details of 112,000 clients over the Internet to an undercover US Secret Service agent...

15.08.2006 US sailor charged with espionage after laptop theft
An insider stole a laptop containing military secrets from the US Navy before passing on the information to foreign governments...

15.08.2006 Private database leaked from Siberian Pension Fund
The database costs around $250 at electronics markets in Krasnoyarsk, but law enforcers have said there is little they can do to punish those selling the data...

11.08.2006 Matrix Bancorp announces potential data breach
The stolen laptops contained private client data and other confidential information. However, in a rare example of good data protection it was all encrypted meaning nobody faces the threat of identity theft...

09.08.2006 Thieves target hospital laptop with private patient data
Thieves have stolen a laptop containing patient details after breaking into a hospital office. Fortunately, there was no medical or financial information on the computer, but it did contain patient Social Security numbers...

08.08.2006 Robbery compromises private data of 300 Mississippi college workers
A laptop containing the private data of 300 people has been stolen during an armed robbery in a college parking lot. According to experts at InfoWatch, cryptography is the only method of dealing with such threats...

04.08.2006 Personal data of 160,000 Kaiser Permanente patients leaked
The stolen laptop only contained the names and addresses of 160,000 Kaiser patients, not their Social Security numbers. The affected patients therefore face little risk of identity theft. So why is Kaiser making such a fuss?...

03.08.2006 Data breach affects 31,000 US Navy recruits
Two laptops with the private data of 31,000 US Navy recruits have been stolen from military offices. A spokesman said the computers were password-protected and the risk of ID theft was “extremely low”...

02.08.2006 Deloitte & Touche loses data on 12,000 Armstrong workers
A laptop stolen from a Deloitte & Touche employee contained the private details of 12,000 current and former Armstrong World Industries workers...

01.08.2006 Canadian doctors affected as 8,000 financial files stolen
About 8,000 clients of MD Management have been affected by the latest laptop theft. The private details, including financial data, of hundreds of Canadian doctors and their families were compromised in the incident...

31.07.2006 Private data of 540,000 New York workers compromised
Computer hardware has gone missing from the New York office of insurance firm CS Stars, compromising the personal records of over half a million employees...

26.07.2006 Private data of 350 US government workers stolen
A bag containing a laptop computer and a printout of personal data belonging to 350 US Agricultural Department workers was stolen and later returned, though someone had obviously rummaged through the case...

25.07.2006 Morgan Stanley secrets leaked via e-mail
A Morgan Stanley insider has been charged with stealing confidential information and sending it to his home e-mail account...

18.07.2006 Private data breach at University of Iowa
A laptop computer containing private data on 280 students has been stolen from a University of Iowa professor, but an official said it was likely to be the last incident of its kind at the university...

13.07.2006 100,000 US Navy and Marine Corps personnel affected by data breach
In the latest data breach to hit the US military the private details of 100,000 servicemen were freely accessible on the Internet for over six months...

12.07.2006 Private data leaked from financial regulator NASD
The toughest financial regulator in the US – the NASD – has compromised private data following a theft from one of its offices. The regulator had tried to cover up the leak by making no mention of the incident...

11.07.2006 Finance firms Bisys Group and ADP hit by data thefts
Bisys Group has lost backup tapes containing the private data of 61,000 clients, and ADP Inc. has admitted it leaked the personal details of at least 140,000 investors...

30.06.2006 Navy Opens Criminal Investigation Into Data Theft
The Navy said a civilian Web site exposed personal data of 28,000 sailors and their family members and has launched a criminal investigation...

29.06.2006 Laptop Theft Hits Equifax Employees
Atlanta-based credit bureau Equifax Inc., itself entrusted as a collector and distributor of confidential information, may soon be dealing with the effects of being a victim of identity theft...

26.06.2006 FTC laptops stolen along with personal data
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is notifying 110 people that two laptop computers containing their personal data were stolen from a locked vehicle...

23.06.2006 6,500 University of Kentucky students affected by data leak
Private data on about 6,500 former University of Kentucky students (dating back to 1988) have been stolen along with a flash drive...

22.06.2006 Finance firm ING loses private data on 13,000 clients
The private details of 13,000 ING US Financial Services clients were on a laptop stolen from the home of a company employee. The company was affected by a similar incident last December...

20.06.2006 One million affected by private data leak at insurer AIG
Thieves have stolen computer equipment containing the private records of 930,000 clients from the offices of U.S. insurance firm AIG. The insurer is now attempting to notify all those affected by the data breach...

20.06.2006 Data leak at Japan’s KDDI exposes private details of 4 million customers
Insiders have stolen a database containing the private details of customers from Japan’s second-largest mobile phone operator. Two of their accomplices, who tried to blackmail KDDI, have been arrested by Tokyo police...

15.06.2006 Data breach at U.S. Energy Department affects 1,500 employees
The theft of private data belonging to 1,500 employees at the nuclear-weapons unit of the U.S. Energy Department went unreported for nine months it has been revealed...

14.06.2006 Damage in biggest ever data leak to exceed $25 billion
The U.S. military veterans affected by a recent data breach have organized a coalition and filed a collective lawsuit seeking $26.5 billion from the federal government...

09.06.2006 U.S. call center Accenture responsible for data breach
A U.S. call center that listed the wrong fax number on a form was responsible for private information being sent to completely the wrong people for three months...

08.06.2006 Laptop theft exposes Royal Ahold to data breach
An Electronic Data Systems employee has lost a laptop containing an unspecified amount of private data on former and current Royal Ahold workers...

07.06.2006 Theft of YMCA laptop compromises private data of 68,000
A laptop with the Social Security numbers and credit card details of 68,000 YMCA members has been stolen from one of the organization’s offices...

06.06.2006 Outsourcing leak affects 1.3M borrowers
Hummingbird Ltd. has lost the private details of 1.3 million student loan clients that were outsourced from TG. The data was on an unspecified piece of equipment that was subsequently lost...

05.06.2006 Ernst & Young loses private details on 243,000 Hotels.com clients
Ernst & Young has lost a laptop containing the private details of 243,000 Hotels.com clients. The computer was stolen from a car belonging to one of the accounting firm’s employees...

05.06.2006 Computer sabotage costs 3 million USD
The state prosecutor has convincing evidence that a former system administrator at the UBS PaineWebber finance company installed a malicious piece of code he has written on over a thousand of the company’s computers – including the back-up system – and programmed his “logic...

30.05.2006 The $4 billion data leak
The head of the Department of Veterans Affairs has told U.S. lawmakers that a recent leak of private data could cost the government up to $500 million, a figure InfoWatch experts describe as very optimistic...

24.05.2006 The biggest data leak ever: 26.5 million U.S. veterans face risk of ID theft
An employee from the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs has been blamed for exposing 26.5 million former servicemen to the threat of identity theft. The information was stolen from the home of the VA insider...

23.05.2006 UK’s ID register set to become prime target for organized crime
The National Identity Register (NIR), containing the private and biometric details of British citizens, will become a prime target for organized crime, according to critics...

19.05.2006 Morgan Stanley agrees to SEC measures for e-mail retention
Morgan Stanley has agreed to pay a fine of $15 million for incorrectly storing e-mails, as well as adopt IT security policies and training procedures concerning the retention of e-mails...

17.05.2006 Wells Fargo leaks more private data
Following the theft of a Wells Fargo computer the bank has announced yet another leak of client data. It is the fourth such incident to affect the bank since late 2003...

15.05.2006 Details of 48,000 clients on laptop stolen from careless Mercantile employee
U.S. firm Mercantile Bankshares has lost a laptop computer with the private details of 48,000 clients. The thieves now have access to thousands of Social Security and bank account numbers...

11.05.2006 Iron Mountain admits loss of more client data
Iron Mountain has once again lost back-up tapes containing client information. This time Long Island Rail Road employees have been affected...

05.05.2006 Sweet-toothed Londoners willing to part with their personal data
A recent experiment has revealed that 81% of Londoners were willing to part with enough of their private details to facilitate identity theft for the chance of winning a modest prize...

04.05.2006 Private details of 7 million Ohio voters leaked ahead of elections
Compact disks with the private data of all the registered voters in the state of Ohio have been distributed to political campaign operations gearing up for spring primary election races

04.05.2006 Private data of 38,000 clients on stolen Aetna laptop
A laptop computer containing the financial and medical records of 38,000 Aetna clients has been reported stolen, but the company believes there is no real cause for worry because the laptop was password protected...

04.05.2006 One in three firms defenseless against hi-tech insiders
Statistics from the UK’s Department of Trade and Industry show that 33% of companies have banned the use of portable storage devices but do almost nothing to enforce those rules in the workplace...

03.05.2006 Private data of 43,000 Hawaiians found during drugs raid
Honolulu police have discovered confidential information on 43,000 residents of Hawaii on a computer seized during a drugs investigation. Members of some of Hawaii’s public employee unions, among those facing the threat of identity theft...

21.04.2006 Data leak discovered at domain name registrar
A leak at DiscountDomainRegistry.com was recently discovered completely by accident after a link to the site led to an error involving execution rights on a MySQL directory...

20.04.2006 ‘Trusted’ insider stole confidential data for 3 years
465,000 private files containing the Social Security and driver’s license numbers belonging to residents of the U.S. state of Georgia were downloaded over a period of three years by an insider...

20.04.2006 Confidential data leaked from U.S. Air Force base
Computer failure or human error is suspected of leaking details of the permit system at a U.S. Air Force base on to the Internet. In theory it could allow criminals or other outside forces to create a permit to enter the territory...

19.04.2006 Flash drives with U.S. military secrets on sale for $20
Flash-memory drives with the private data of U.S. servicemen, including four generals, and details of military training are being sold on the black market of Afghanistan...

17.04.2006 Data leak endangers the life of President Bush
A correspondent from The San Francisco Chronicle has managed to find out secret information from the Internet about the aircraft that U.S. President George Bush uses...

11.04.2006 South Korean insiders on to a nice little earner
Insiders at Internet providers have reportedly stolen and sold the private data of over 10 million South Koreans. The personal details are openly sold on the Internet, with a 100-fold fall in their price blamed on increasing availability...

10.04.2006 Insider took too much interest in clients’ property
An insider made use of private client information from the insurance company where she worked to purchase foreclosure property. The woman was only caught out after a complaint was made about prying phone calls...

07.04.2006 Outsourcing blunder compromises private data of 108,000 state workers
A series of outsourcing agreements has led to the private data of Florida state workers being passed from one company to the next before a leak finally occurred at a firm in India...

06.04.2006 Private data leaked from Hong Kong police complaints agency
The personal details of 20,000 Hong Kong residents who made complaints against the police were recently discovered freely available on the Internet...

04.04.2006 NTT Data insider uses private details to steal $260,000
A former systems administrator who made copies of credit card numbers, passwords and other private details at Japan’s NTT Data has stolen over $260,000...

03.04.2006 Ernst & Young’s spate of data leaks hits Nokia
Nokia has joined Sun Microsystems, Cisco, IBM and BP on the unenviable list of those affected by laptop thefts at Ernst & Young. The sheer scale of the data leaks suffered by just one company suggests that the thefts are not just opportunist crimes...

30.03.2006 Naivety goes hand in hand with negligence
One U.S. state body sends out 64,000 letters containing private data to the wrong addresses, another 7 million people fill in online registration forms with their personal details in order to win non-existent iPods and video-game consoles:

29.03.2006 200,000 HP staff affected by laptop theft
A laptop computer with the private details of almost 200,000 HP employees has been lost by the company Fidelity Investments. The data appears to have been unprotected leaving those affected open to identity theft...

28.03.2006 Stolen laptop had private data on 14,000 staff, students at Vermont College
Thousands of Vermont State College staff and students have been informed that their social security and credit card numbers were on a laptop computer stolen from the car of a college employee...

27.03.2006 40,000 BP employees fall victim to Ernst & Young data leak
Yet more victims have been named in connection with the loss of confidential data by Ernst & Young. This time 40,000 U.S. workers of the oil giant BP were notified that a laptop containing their names and social security numbers ended up in the hands of criminals...

24.03.2006 Merrill Lynch fined $2.5M for failing to store e-mails properly
Yet another company that failed to maintain its corporate archive properly has been exposed. Merrill Lynch has been fined $2.5 million for violating regulations governing the storage of e-mails...

24.03.2006 NCsoft faces potential identity theft bill of $1Bln
The number of identity theft victims linked to the Lineage online game looks set to surpass 1 million. If all the potential legal cases turn out to be successful the game's developer could face a legal bill of over $1 billion...

22.03.2006 Private data leak affects workers at General Motors
A former security guard at General Motors who stole documents belonging to the firm over 10 years ago managed to access the company's database and find out what kind of cars GM employees drove...

22.03.2006 CIA secrets discovered on the Internet
A newspaper says it has discovered secret data belonging to the U.S. government on the Internet. The paper said it managed to find a list of more than 2,500 CIA agents, some of whom are still working under cover, as well as details on several "secret" facilities...

20.03.2006 Ernst & Young lose yet another laptop
Auditing firm Ernst & Young has lost yet another laptop computer containing client details. This time thousands of IBM employees face the threat of identity theft...

17.03.2006 Insider sentenced to 4 years for theft of Ј1M
A government insider, who hid his criminal past and lack of qualifications to get a job as an accountant for the deputy prime minister, has been jailed for four years for siphoning off Ј1 million in British taxpayers' money via a front company...

16.03.2006 Data of 122 patients on stolen Providence laptops
Two laptop computers have been stolen from the cars of Providence Hospice and Home Care employees. They contained the names, addresses, social security numbers and medical records of 122 patients...

15.03.2006 Stolen Verizon laptops pose identity-theft threat to staff
The theft of two laptops containing private details from a Verizon office has left the telecom firm's employees open to identity theft. The company has stressed that the theft was a random act and poses no danger, though that may be wishful thinking...

15.03.2006 U.S. college loses laptop with private data on 93,000 students
A college in Denver believes it may have lost the private data of 93,000 students after a laptop computer was stolen from the home of a college employee in late February...

13.03.2006 Private details of 4,000 patients on stolen PWC laptop
A laptop computer with the private details of 4,000 patients at a Houston hospital has been stolen from the home of a PricewaterhouseCoopers auditor...

08.03.2006 Ernst & Young lose confidential data of Sun Microsystems CEO
Ernst & Young, whose services include advising its clients on how to protect confidential information, lost 5 laptops last month compromising data that included social security numbers...

06.03.2006 Sale of Russian passport details underlines legal flaws
For almost a year a database containing the passport details of 16.5 million current and former residents of the Russian capital has been on sale. Under the current laws, those selling the data cannot be prosecuted, though serious questions remain as to where the information came from in the first place...

03.03.2006 Personal data of all McAfee employees lost
The problems of protecting private data are felt even by those companies which specialise in the field. Despite McAfee's area of work, the company recently lost sensitive data of 10,000 current and former workers with a little help from a Deloitte & Touche employee who left a data disk in an aeroplane...

01.03.2006 Insider sentenced to 8 years for private data theft
The former owner of Snipermail has been sentenced to eight years in prison for the theft of over 1 billion private data records. Using his position and illegally obtained passwords he stole personal details belonging to the data operator Acxiom and was shown no pity by the judge hearing the case...

27.02.2006 Bank of Russia database for sale on black market is fake
The latest database of Bank of Russia transactions on sale on the black market has turned out to be a fake. Bank specialists failed to find one correct piece of information for the data supposedly from the first quarter of 2005. It is the first such incident when an entirely fake database has been used to take advantage of the huge demand for such products...

21.02.2006 Lack of consideration for e-mail archives costs Morgan Stanley $15M
Morgan Stanley was on the receiving end of the biggest ever fine of its kind issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for the brokerage firm's failure to preserve e-mails properly...

18.02.2006 Insurance firm posts private data breach to customers
Yet another company has been added to a growing list of absurd private data leaks after the Social Security numbers of over 600 insurance customers were printed on envelopes sent out by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina...

17.02.2006 Hospital sends sensitive patient data to wrong fax number for six months
A world-renowned hospital in the U.S. has been mistakenly sending sensitive patient details to a bank that has absolutely nothing to do with the hospital or its patients...

16.02.2006 Russian fears of digital data dossiers laid to rest
Russian parliamentarians have raised fears that recent draft laws on information will result in the state creating digital dossiers on private individuals. A government spokesman has already played down those fears, saying there will be no electronic profiles of Russian citizens and all other personal data will be well protected...

14.02.2006 Russia's Central Bank hit by new database leak dating back to early 2005
The latest leak of confidential information from Russia's Central Bank has resulted in the bank's database of money transfers for the first quarter of 2005 going on sale...

10.02.2006 19,000 Honeywell employees affected by private data leak
Offers of free bank transaction monitoring and insurance against identity theft have been made to 19,000 former and current employees at Honeywell International after their Social Security numbers and bank account details were posted on the Internet...

09.02.2006 Private data of 240,000 subscribers 'recycled' by The New York Times
An attempt to recycle documents at two newspapers belonging to the New York Times has ended in the private details of 240,000 subscribers being compromised. Routing slips on 9,000 batches of newspapers were found to have readers' credit card and bank account details on the reverse side.

08.02.2006 Insider steals $45,000 from Ukrainian bank
A programmer at a Ukrainian bank made use of his access to customer details to steal over $45,000 from accounts. The 23-year-old Dnepropetrovsk resident has already been detained by police.

08.02.2006 Identity theft victims emerge in PHS data theft case
A handful of people have approached the authorities in the U.S. state of Oregon to say that their personal information, stolen from a Providence Health System employee, has been used illegally. Police are still verifying the claims linked to the theft of data tapes and disks with the personal details of 365,000 people at the end of last year.

04.02.2006 PHS notifies 365,000 patients about data theft
The theft of backup computer disks and tapes from the car of a Providence Home Services employee has forced the company to notify 365,000 of its patients that their private details have been compromised...

03.02.2006 Ameriprise loses laptop with data on 158,000 clients
Advisory firm Ameriprise Financial has announced that the financial details of 158,000 clients and the social security numbers of thousands of the firm's advisors were compromised after a laptop computer was stolen from the car of an Ameriprise employee...

01.02.2006 San Diego city employee pleads guilty to customer identity theft
A 48-year-old San Diego woman has provided a classic example of just how easy it is for ordinary state employees to manipulate the information they work with to profit from identity theft. One of her four victims turned out to be her immediate boss...

31.01.2006 Source codes for Internet Explorer 7 leaked from Microsoft
Software giant Microsoft has suffered a serious leak after the second beta-test version of Internet Explorer 7 ended up on the Internet together with its source codes...

30.01.2006 Russian dating agency blames 'dirty tricks' for information leak reports
According to reports by several Russian news agencies last week, offers to buy a database containing the client details of the Mamba.ru virtual dating agency were distributed throughout the Internet via spam...

28.01.2006 ChoicePoint's data breach losses reach $26.4M
U.S. data aggregator ChoicePoint has reached an agreement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to pay a fine of $10 million for а massive data security breach involving consumer records. The FTC has also asked ChoicePoint to pay $5 million into a compensation fund for those affected by the leak...

26.01.2006 Secret details of U.S. government contractors leaked
A Web site for U.S. government contractors had to be shut down earlier this month after the General Services Administration revealed that anyone using the resource could gain access to confidential documents of the other users...

25.01.2006 Bank insiders indicted in $300,000 identity theft scam
Sixteen people, including three bank employees and several students, have been indicted in a U.S. district court in a bank fraud and identity theft case that involved 37 banks and almost $300,000...

24.01.2006 U.S. presidential candidate's cell-phone records sold for $100
If you want to gain access to the cell-phone records of virtually any American, all you need is their telephone number and a spare $100 dollars on your credit card. The rest you can leave up to a host of Internet sites that provide you with a list of calls made and received...

21.01.2006 H&R Block blunder exposes consumer data
Some consumers may be dismayed to find their Social Security numbers printed on unsolicited packages from H&R Block, the result of a recent labeling blunder at the company...

21.01.2006 Conmen use civil servants' pay data
Fraudsters used the personal bank details of thousands of civil servants to make bogus claims for disability benefits worth tens of millions of pounds, the Sunday Telegraph has learned...

20.01.2006 Thousands of private records found in British rubbish skip
Thousands of documents containing the names, addresses, credit card details, telephone numbers and the signatures of guests at one of Britain's most famous hotels ended up in a rubbish skip in what has been dubbed "the biggest field day for identity fraudsters ever"...

20.01.2006 Lost in transportation: People's Bank data tape goes missing
One of the oldest banks in the U.S. state of Connecticut became the latest U.S. financial firm to lose confidential data after a tape containing information for around 90,000 customers and employees went missing while in transit to a credit reporting bureau...

19.01.2006 Breach at Security Vendor Shocks Industry
Security and law enforcement professionals are appalled that their personal information was leaked by Guidance Software, a security software and training company they say should have known better than to leave an unencrypted database exposed on the Internet...

19.01.2006 IDs of 50,000 Bahamas resort guests stolen: Kerzner
The identities of more than 50,000 customers of major Bahamas resort Atlantis have been exposed to possible identity fraud following the theft of personal information from the hotel, the owners said...

19.01.2006 Computers with patients' information stolen from office
A medical office has warned about 700 patients that their personal data may have been compromised by the theft of six computers...

18.01.2006 Data Breaches: New Year, Old Story
A new year and an old story: Americans fall prey to data theft. A new year and another old story: Congress does nothing about it, not even requiring companies to inform consumers of the breaches...

18.01.2006 Embarrassing data leak mars launch of world's largest bank
The world's largest bank has mistakenly sent the account numbers of 580 companies to the wrong addresses. Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ was quick to blame human error for the programming blunder and not the computer system at the recently merged financial institution...

17.01.2006 Action needed on identity theft
New Jersey has joined a handful of states with something that New York and the federal government lack — a law to give people some protection against identity theft...

27.12.2005 ABN Amro Lost and Found Tapes with Private Data of 2 Million Customers
ABN Amro's LaSalle Bank reported that it lost back-up tape with private data of 2 million customers on Friday. However on Tuesday the bank said that the tape was found and sensitive records were safe. Despite there is no evidence of misuse of data...

27.12.2005 Private Data Leakage from Ford Motor
PC with 70,000 private records was stolen from a Ford facility. Names, Social Security numbers and etc. are now compromised...

19.12.2005 Beware Christmas data theft dangers, warn police
Police, security experts and lawyers are warning IT departments to be on their guard against corporate data theft as companies wind down their operations over the Christmas holidays...

13.12.2005 British Ministers Were Aware of the ID Theft but Did Nothing to Stop the Fraud
The British government has known for months that criminals were using stolen identities to make fraudulent online tax credit claims worth millions of pounds, but ministers have not done anything to stop swindlers...

09.12.2005 Private Data Leakage Costs DSW Company $9.5M
According to a settlement, discount shoe retailer Designer Shoe Warehouse, which discovered in March that information on 1.5 million customers had been stolen, will put in place a comprehensive security program and have its systems audited by independent experts every other year for 20 years...

02.12.2005 Americans still nervous about healthcare privacy
Two-thirds of Americans are concerned about the privacy of their personal health data and 52 percent fear that employers might use it to limit job opportunities...

02.12.2005 E-mail usage exposing corporations to liability
Most American office workers have performed risky acts with e-mail, and the vast majority are clueless about it, indicates a recent Harris Interactive poll...

30.11.2005 Chinese Illegally Use Korean Registration Numbers
Continuing private data leakages and attendant ID thefts allow Chinese to use Korean IT resources without any pangs of conscience. It's a so burning issue that Korean government decided to interfere and design new identification systems specific for the virtual world...

24.11.2005 Sensitive Data on Mobile Devices Is Unprotected
According to Mobile Usage Survey 2005, a third of professionals using portable devices such as PDAs and smartphones doesn't protect its mobile data with passwords or any other security protection...

23.11.2005 Insider Tried to Deliver US Navy Secret Data to China
FBI arrested four men who allegedly conspired to steal sensitive information about Navy warships and smuggle it to China. One of them was insider who worked in defense contractor and stole secret data of his employer...

22.11.2005 ID Theft Cost USA $54.6 Billion in 2004
ID theft is the fastest-growing and the most expensive crime there is in the United States. Thieves using personal data they obtained both legally and illegally raked in $54.6 billion last year...

19.11.2005 Most of Companies Doesn't Know How to Store Data Safely
According to Data Storage Security Survey 2005, more than a half of 300 responding companies have no formal procedures for protecting stored data and an overwhelming majority rated data storage security as only fair or poor...

16.11.2005 2.5 Years in Prison for Falsifying Financial Reports and Insider Trading
A Japanese court convicted resort and railroad tycoon Yoshiaki Tsutsumi of insider trading and falsifying company records Thursday, slapping him with a fine of 5 million yen ($43,200) and a suspended prison sentence...

16.11.2005 ID Theft Swindlers Are Hunting for Students
Recent incidents highlight that students are often ID theft victims. Swindlers use teenagers' Social Security numbers and other personal data to register for classes and obtain financial aid...

12.11.2005 ID Theft Threatens Teenagers
Federal trade Commission worries about teenagers ID theft. Swindlers know that young people haven't applied for credit for a long time, so a stolen identity may go undiscovered for years...

09.11.2005 Laptop with 3,800 UTMC Patients' Private Data Was Stolen
Stolen laptop contained names, Social Security numbers and birthdates of 3,800 patients of University of Tennessee Medical Center. The data was protected by a password; however all affected are at the risk of ID theft...

04.11.2005 Private Data Leakage Costs Chipotle $5.6M
In the IPO SEC filing privately held company Chipotle states that it has lost $5.6 million as a result of sensitive data leakage last August (1.6M for short term expenses and 4M for reserve fund to deal with claims arising from possible ID theft)...

03.11.2005 iPod Is a Serious Data Leakage Channel
A survey conducted by US investigators points that iPod is very serious sensitive data leakage channel and an open door for spyware and malicious codes. In addition, there have already been registered incidents when employee copied classified information to portable devices, including iPod, and then took them away from an office...

03.11.2005 ID Theft Threaten Corporations
The Federation of Small Businesses warns that small and medium enterprises are vulnerable to corporate identity theft. The consequences of such fraud can be catastrophic for small businesses...

01.11.2005 Two Call Center's Directors Proved to Be Insiders
Two Indian call center directors were arrested for allegedly leaking the company's confidential information and diverting BPO deals to its competitors...

28.10.2005 Scotland Yard Focuses Efforts on Private Data Leakages
Scotland Yard has joined forces with the Commonwealth Business Council in a new initiative to fight high-tech crime such as private data leakages, identity theft and infringement intellectual property rights...

28.10.2005 Fired Worker Stole Private Data from Its Former Employer
GTA (Georgia Technology Authority) warns 465,000 Georgia drivers and government workers that they are at the risk of ID theft due to private data leakage registered last April..

25.10.2005 White House Insider Was Undetected for Three Years
A former White House staff member who allegedly used his top secret clearance to steal classified intelligence documents was undetected for three years...

20.10.2005 Insider in RBC Dain Rauscher
Last week clients of the Minneapolis-based brokerage RBC Dain Rauscher Inc. received anonymous letters where someone claiming to be a former employee had said that he was seeking revenge on Dain Rauscher because the company fired him and had sold clients' private data to an unidentified buyer...

20.10.2005 A Laptop with Bank of America Clients' Private Data Was Stolen
The stolen laptop belonged to an unnamed Bank of America service provider. The scale of the incident is still a question, because Bank of America spokeswoman refused to name the service provider...

19.10.2005 DoD Can't Protect its Secret Data
The U.S. Defense Logistics Agency, the part of Department of Defense (DoD) that is responsible for providing food, fuel, medical supplies, clothing, spare parts for weapon systems and construction materials to support the country's military forces...

18.10.2005 India Is to Solve Insiders Problem
Insiders who steal and sell private data are the most dangerous threat for India's business process outsourcing (BPO) industry. In May 2005 workers of call center in Pune, India, robbed Citibank customers for $425,000 and in June 2005 a call center employee in New Delhi, India, sold personal information on 1,000 customers to a British tabloid...

28.09.2005 MasterCard and Visa Are Not Required to Notify 40M Customers
A San Francisco judge has rejected a request that Visa and MasterCard be required to notify consumers whose personal information in a security breach at CardSystems Solutions Inc. that exposed over 40 million credit card holders to potential fraud...

21.09.2005 UC Berkley's Laptop Was Recovered
The laptop that was had been stolen from the University of California, Berkley, on March 11 with private data of about 100,000 graduate students on its hard drive was recovered by campus police...

21.09.2005 New Insider Incidents from ChoicePoint
ChoicePoint, the Alpharetta, Ga.-based firm, announced four new incidents of improper access to private records and misuse them, reported MSNBC...

17.09.2005 New Technologies Are Helping ID Theft
Scientists from University of East Anglia, the UK, believe that that advances in technology may actually make identity theft worse...

14.09.2005 Private Data Leakage Costs DSW $6.5M
In the end of May DSW Shoe Warehouse informed its customers that data was stolen from the company's computer for 108 stores which included information on 1.4 million credit card holders...

07.09.2005 ChoicePoint: The Criminal Has Been Caught
The private data theft, which touched all of adult USA population got a lot of publicity in the end of February. ChoicePoint, Georgia, USA, allowed a leak of confidential data about 145 000 USA residents, in all 50 states of the country...

06.09.2005 MI6: Potential Secret Data Leakage
New York-based activist John Young named 276 alleged MI6 agents, including former Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown, on his Cryptome Web site, Silicon.com reported...

30.08.2005 Bank Robber Was an Insider
Finnish police has arrested the head of data security at the Helsinki branch of financial services company GE Money...

24.08.2005 Insiders in Headhunter Industry
Korn/Ferry International, the world's largest executive recruitment firm, accuses its five former employees of stealing 32,500 candidate and clients records from corporative database. The central figure of the scandal is David Nosal, executive recruiter, who is as famous as Korn/Ferry...

23.08.2005 15 Months in Prison for Inside Job
25-years-old Jason Smathers, a former America Online employee, was sentenced to 15 months in prison for stealing 92 million e-mail screen names from the Internet provider and selling them to an Internet marketer...

20.08.2005 One in Five Is ID Theft Victim
Nearly 20% of US consumers have experienced ID theft, and younger adults are at greatest risk, the latest Experian-Gallup Personal Credit Index reported...

05.08.2005 ID Theft Victims Find Difficult to Clear Their Names
The latest report, published by Nationwide Mutual Insurance, says that 25% of Americans who fall victim to identity theft find it a struggle to clear their name...

03.08.2005 CardSystems Solutions Is to Close in Consequence of Private Data Leakage
Credit card processor CardSystems Solutions, which potentially exposed more than 40 million cards of all brands to fraud is likely to close, because two of its main customers, Visa and American Express, has decided to cancel their business partnership with CardSystems...

02.08.2005 Wells Fargo Bank Finds a Way to Profit from its Weak Security
Wells Fargo experienced several security incidents that put hundreds of thousands of customers into risk of ID theft. Nevertheless the bank has found a way to profit from the problem...

29.07.2005 Private Data Leakage Cost ChoicePoint $11.4M
Credit and personal information vendor ChoicePoint Inc. reported that it had spent $6 million in consequence of October 2004 data theft in the second quarter, which ended June 30. The second-quarter charge came on top of a $5.4 million charge the company had to take in the first quarter related to...

26.07.2005 US Government Agencies Have Problems with IT-security
The GAO (General Accountability Office) criticized the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) last month. Audit performed by the GAO disclosed that the SEC has serious internal IT-security problems in dealing with critical financial information and accountancy practices. The importance of this...

25.07.2005 Private Data Leakage from Fiducial Business Services of Portland
Non-standard incident has occurred in Portland. Criminals, who probably were druggies, broke in the door at Fiducial Business Services and stole computers with backup private information for about 20,000 clients of a Portland tax business. The thieves, who left syringes and drug paraphernalia at the...

06.07.2005 New Private Data Leakage from Indian Call Centre
An Indian call centre worker is accused of selling personal information on 1,000 UK bank accounts for Ј4.25 each...

28.06.2005 MasterCard: The Largest Theft of Credit Card Numbers
MasterCard International announced that it is notifying its member financial institutions of a breach of payment card data, which potentially exposed more than 40 million cards of all brands to fraud, of which approximately 13.9 million are MasterCard-branded cards...

28.06.2005 Kodak Company: Private Data Leakage
Criminals have got private data that contained names, Social Security numbers, birth dates and benefits information of 5,800 former Eastman Kodak Co. workers...

25.06.2005 Private Data Leakage from Swiss Bank Julius Baer
Swiss private bank Julius Baer Holding AG has confirmed the theft of highly confidential client data from one of its units in the Cayman Islands, Forbes reported..

21.06.2005 DSW: The Impact of Information Leakage
Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro has asked a court to order shoe retailer Designer Shoe Warehouse (DSW) to individually notify each customer whose personal information may have been stolen recently from DSW computer files...

15.06.2005 A Laptop with Private Data of 80,000 Justice Department Employees Was Stolen
laptop was stolen between May 7 and May 9 from Omega World Travel of Fairfax, Va., which is one of the largest travel companies in the Washington area and does extensive business with government agencies...

10.06.2005 4 Million CitiFinancial Customers' Private Data Has Gone
CitiFinancial, the retail finance division of Citigroup, has lost backup tapes containing sensitive personal information of around 4 million American customers...

07.06.2005 Industrial Espionage Has No Rules
Business community was shocked by the largest case of industrial espionage that involved several arrests of top executives at some of Israel's biggest companies, including the Yes satellite TV company, Mayer Cars & Trucks, the Pelephone Communications and Cellcom cellular networks...

03.06.2005 10,000 Stanford Students' Private Data Has Gone
In the result of IT-security breach someone has intruded into Stanford University network and compromised personal data of 10,000 people...

03.06.2005 SEC Has Internal IT-security Problems
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has internal IT-security problems in dealing with critical financial information and accountancy practices...

27.05.2005 1.5 Million DSW's Customers Are in Danger of ID Theft
Customers of DSW Shoe Warehouse have been informed that data was stolen from the company's computer for 108 stores which included information on 1.4 million credit card holders and 96,000 check writers for a period from mid-November, 2004 through mid-February 2005...

26.05.2005 How Can We Trust Our Doctors?
Chicago Tribune reports that a criminal group which included insiders from Chicago hospital who used confidential data of more than 100,000 patients to steal at least $150,000 from victim's bank accounts has been arrested...

25.05.2005 The Largest Bank Data Theft in USA
The largest bank data theft in USA affected about 700,000 customers at 4 different banks: Wachovia Corp., Bank of America Corp., Commerce Bancorp Inc. and PNC Bank NA...

25.05.2005 Data Leakages in USA Universities
A new student identification method is to be developed in Oklahoma State University, where laptop computer listing Social Security numbers for more than 37,000 current and former students was stolen on April 12...

24.05.2005 The Largest Case of Medical Data Theft in USA
The FBI has arrested a former branch manager of San Jose Medical Group, who is charged with stealing medical and financial information about 185,000 patients of the group...

11.05.2005 Industrial Espionage at Valeo Company
A 22-year-old Chinese student has been arrested by French police for alleged industrial espionage while working at Valeo, the car parts manufacturer...

09.05.2005 Indian Call Centre Employees stole $350,000 from Citibank's US Clients

The call centre workers in Pune, India, have been arrested for looting $350,000 from the accounts of Citibank's US customers...

08.05.2005 600,000 Time Warner workers' data has gone
CNNMoney, a Time Warner affiliate, reported that media conglomerate Time Warner has lost computer back-up tapes containing private information of 600,000 current and former employees...

06.05.2005 Apple iPod and similar devices are dangerous
The recent survey revealed that overwhelming majority of companies is not ready to cope with the threat of using multimedia players within corporative network...

04.05.2005 200,000 Ameritrade client's private data has gone
A computer backup tape with the account information of more than 200,000 Ameritrade Inc. clients has been lost...

04.05.2005 1 Insider + 20Ј-gadget = World's Largest Potential Bank Robbery
The investigation of Sumitomo's incident revealed that insiders used keyboard logging devices costing as little as Ј20 each...

17.04.2005 Was the Sumitomo Bank Robbery an Inside Job?
On March 17, 2005, the UK's National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) announced that criminals had tried to steal Ј220m from the London-based office of Japanese bank Sumitomo Mitsui. They used spyware to collect access codes and passwords that allow transferring money electronically...

16.04.2005 Fear is the Main Cause of Latency in IT Crimes
The last survey proved that IT bosses are fearful of losing their jobs in the event of any security incident...

13.04.2005 All Private Data for One Illusive Theatre Ticket
The chance to win theatre tickets is enough to make people give away their identity. A fake survey on theatre-going habits helped potential frauds to collect private information about Londoners...

02.04.2005 Call-centers can't protect your data from own employees
The on-going widespread of call/contact-centers in Russia scares Russian and foreign experts on information security. In their opinion, a lot of Russian clients and solution distributors do not give enough consideration to information security...

20.03.2005 100,000 students' private data has gone
A laptop with records of more than 98,000 people has been stolen from the University of California at Berkeley. It puts about 100,000 students at risk of ID theft...

16.03.2005 AIDS patients' data has gone
Detailed information about 4,500 AIDS patients and another 2,000 HIV-positive people was accidentally emailed to 800 medical staff. According to a report by the Associated Press, Palm Beach County Health Department statistician has mistakenly attached private document to an email that has been sent to hundreds of health workers...

05.03.2005 AIDS patients' data has gone
Detailed information about 4,500 AIDS patients and another 2,000 HIV-positive people was accidentally emailed to 800 medical staff...

01.03.2005 Personal data of 145 000 USA residents disappeared
The private data theft, which touched all of adult USA population got a lot of publicity in the end of February. ChoicePoint, Georgia, USA, allowed a leak of confidential data about 145 000 USA residents...

15.02.2005 NTT DoCoMo assumes an information leak about 25 000 subscribers
According to information agencies, officials of NTT DoCoMo, Japan's largest telecommunications operator, have announced a possible personal data leak about 24,632 cellular communications subscribers of said company...

04.02.2005 The personnel of LucOil's Moscow office are prohibited to use cell phones at work for security reasons
The employees of the main Moscow LucOil office must turn off their cell phones before going inside the building or hand it in. According to Alexander Vasilenko, the head of public relations department of LucOil, starting on February 1^st, before entering the building, the employees must hand in their cell phones or turn them off...

Secret data laptop stolen from MoD headquarters

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