I’m getting tired of posting about data security breaches, but this one is a whopper — actually, more like a double whopper. From the AP [link no longer available]:
Data Security Breach Supersized: 40 Million People Affected
Category: Data Breach Notification
Posts about Data Breach Notification by Professor Daniel J. Solove for his blog at TeachPrivacy, a privacy awareness and security training company.
Notice Much Delayed: The FDIC Data Security Breach
A Washington Post article discusses the letter the FDIC recently mailed to about 6,000 of its employees that describes a data security breach where employee personal information was compromised:
Information Privacy and the States
There’s been a ton of media exposure about security breaches at major companies. Most recently, Time Warner admitted it lost data on 600,000 current and former employees. Bank of America Lost data on over 1 million people. ChoicePoint sold personal information on about 145,000 people to identity thieves. And Lexis Nexis had data on about 310,000 people improperly […]