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Study Reveals The Enormous Scale Of Cybercrime
We don’t talk about cybersecurity a whole lot on here, though there seems to be a new threat every couple of days. Most recently, a security breach was detected in Microsoft Internet Explorer, which...
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University of Chicago Accidentally Mails Out 9,100 Employee SSNs
Another day, another “massive breach of private information” story. This one comes to us from the great city of Chicago, where a “university error” led to the social security numbers of over...
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Hackers Hit Florida College, Steal Over 50 Identities
Last week we told you about an accidental leak of private personal information from the University of Chicago; today’s story about Northwest Florida State College is even worse. Yesterday, the Florida...
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Personal Info And Credit Card Numbers Exposed in SC Hack
Today’s massive security breach comes to us from South Carolina, where hackers using an overseas IP address broke into the state Department of Revenue’s website, and obtained up to 3.6 million social...
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Follow Up: South Carolina Data Breach Report Released
Some new information has come out relating to the massive South Carolina data breach, where over 3.5 million social security numbers, and nearly 400,000 credit card numbers, were illegally obtained....
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Another University Suffers Data Breach, This Time 235k Affected
It’s been a couple of months since we told you about the double whammy of higher-education security snafus, when Northwest Florida State College and the University of Chicago each admitted to data...
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Hospital Patient Data Theft Lands Florida Man In Federal Prison
By IT-Lex Intern Eric Everson (Twitter) This one strikes close to home for we Lexies (yes, that’s my new slang term for the members and readers of IT-Lex) that live in the Orlando, Florida area. Last...
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Follow Up: LinkedIn Security Case Dismissed
In one of our very earliest posts here at IT-Lex, we discussed the LinkedIn security breach, where six million passwords (without the accompanying usernames) were stolen by hackers. Back then, a class...
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Big Data, Big Privacy Concerns, And Big Settlements
By IT-Lex Intern Eric Everson (LinkedIn) Think data privacy has no teeth? What happens when a company collects your background information and sells it to debt collectors? Just ask LexisNexis, who...
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Robber Takes Cash, Sensitive Data At Gunpoint From K-Mart
We’ve spoken about data breaches fairly recently, and looked into the requirements about reporting breaches to the authorities. We don’t, usually, get to talk about armed robbery on these pages,...
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