======================================================================== Open Security Foundation - DataLossDB Weekly Summary Week of Sunday, February 20, 2011 13 Incidents Added. ======================================================================== DataLossDB is a research project aimed at documenting known and reported data loss incidents world-wide. The Open Security Foundation asks for contributions of new incidents and new data for existing incidents. For any questions about the project or the data contained within this email or the website (http://www.datalossdb.org), please contact us at curators_at_private ======================================================================== DataLossDB News/Updates No news this week! ======================================================================== Incidents Added Reported Date: 2011-02-23 Summary: Hack exposed names, telephone numbers, and email addresses Organizations: St George's University of London Medical School http://datalossdb.org/incidents/3379 --------------------- Reported Date: 2011-02-23 Summary: Family names, some given names and a postcode and or a date of birth stolen from laptop at home Organizations: Disability, Housing and Community Service http://datalossdb.org/incidents/3383 --------------------- Reported Date: 2011-02-22 Summary: 21 passport renewal applications lost during processing exposing name, addresses, date of birth and photos. Organizations: Identity and Passport Service http://datalossdb.org/incidents/3377 --------------------- Reported Date: 2011-02-22 Summary: 13,000 Social Security numbers, student identification numbers and financial aid information exposed in file placed in a nonsecure folder Organizations: Chapman University, Brandman University http://datalossdb.org/incidents/3381 --------------------- Reported Date: 2011-02-21 Summary: 37 addresses, home-security system PIN numbers and details of their medication and hospital visits.found in parking lot. Organizations: Plan Personnel http://datalossdb.org/incidents/3385 --------------------- Reported Date: 2011-02-19 Summary: Career site's database hacked exposing user's information. Organizations: eFinancialCareers, Dice Holdings, Inc. http://datalossdb.org/incidents/3386 --------------------- Reported Date: 2011-02-16 Summary: 3,655 patient names, contact details, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, along with certain basic clinical information exposed in database Organizations: Charleston Area Medical Center's Research Institute, XForia http://datalossdb.org/incidents/3374 --------------------- Reported Date: 2011-02-15 Summary: Thousands of credit cards exposed due to hackers outside of the company Organizations: Day's Jewelers http://datalossdb.org/incidents/3376 --------------------- Reported Date: 2011-02-10 Summary: Database was hacked and exposed user names, email addresses and hashed passwords Organizations: eHarmony, Inc. http://datalossdb.org/incidents/3375 --------------------- Reported Date: 2011-01-25 Summary: 60,000 names, dates of birth, street addresses, telephone numbers or health card number lost on two computers that were stolen. Organizations: Bruyere Family Medicine Centre http://datalossdb.org/incidents/3384 --------------------- Reported Date: 2010-11-01 Summary: Contractor mistakenly mailed letters to the wrong address containing financial information about tax benefit entitlement, income and savings. Organizations: Unknown Organization, Isle of Anglesey County Council http://datalossdb.org/incidents/3378 --------------------- Reported Date: 2010-10-25 Summary: A box containing information pertaining to 146 employees who took the Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) test was left in the open while moving material from one storage area to another. Organizations: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs http://datalossdb.org/incidents/3380 --------------------- Reported Date: 2010-06-14 Summary: Names, Social Security numbers and date of birth exposed due to unknown party with access code viewing credit reports online. Organizations: Experian http://datalossdb.org/incidents/3382 --------------------- ======================================================================== Blotter Posts Added: 2011-02-27 Title: Identity theft calledfastest-growing crime http://www.timesrecordnews.com/news/2011/feb/26/identity-theft-calledfastest-growing-crime/?partner=RSS --------------------- Added: 2011-02-24 Title: Crack down on ID theft http://www.dailybreeze.com/opinions/ci_17475222?source=rss --------------------- Added: 2011-02-24 Title: What to do When a Family Member Steals a Minor's Identity http://feeds.foxbusiness.com/~r/foxbusiness/financial_planning/~3/98vkLmr0LsE/ --------------------- Added: 2011-02-23 Title: Security breach 'won't result in identity theft' http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/02/24/3147638.htm --------------------- Added: 2011-02-23 Title: Disney workers sue over ID-risk threat http://ocresort.ocregister.com/2011/02/22/disney-workers-sue-over-identity-theft-risk/70903/ --------------------- Added: 2011-02-23 Title: Emory Healthcare offers patients fraud protection for stolen IDs http://www.ajc.com/news/dekalb/emory-healthcare-offers-patients-847964.html --------------------- Added: 2011-02-23 Title: Protecting Your Identity On Social Media Sites http://www.onlinesocialmedia.net/20110222/protecting-your-identity-on-social-media-sites/ --------------------- _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss_at_private) CREDANT Technologies, a leader in data security, offers advanced data encryption solutions. 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