M&amp;S rapped for data loss
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This is not just security... Marks and Spencers has been told it must encrypt all company laptops containing personal information by April 2008.â¦
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Data laws blamed for communication failure after education prizes worth Â£12m go unclaimed
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Big calls for small biz Storage briefing You might think your data is protected, but is it protected enough? There are plenty of statistics around on how rarely businesses survive the complete loss of their IT systems and data, but these days, it's not just a matter of business continuity - it's a legal requirement as well.â¦
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HM Revenue and Customs admits losing the details of 6,500 customers of a pension firm at its Cardiff offices.
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A backup tape containing credit-card information from hundreds of U.S. retailers is missing, forcing the company responsible for the data to warn customers that they may become the targets of data fraud.GE Money, which manages in-store credit-card programs for the majority of U.S. retailers, first realized that the tape was missing from an Iron Mountain secure storage facility in October, said Richard Jones, a company spokesman. &quot;We were informed that one of the tapes could not be located. But at the same time, there was no record of it ever having been checked out,&quot; he said.The tape contained in-store credit-card information on 650,000 retail customers, including those of J.C. Penney, he said. GE Money employees are also affected by the breach.The missing backup tape was unencrypted.Although J.C. Penney was the only company that Jones would confirm as affected by the missing tape, that retailer accounts for just a small percentage of all accounts that were compromised. In total, 230 retailers are affected by the breach. &quot;Clearly that number includes many of the national retail organizations,&quot; he said.The tape also contained Social Security numbers of 150,000 customers. When matched with name and address information, Social Security numbers can be used to set up fraudulent credit-card accounts, a common form of identity theft.Jones said that following a GE Money investigation, there is no evidence that the tape in question has been stolen or that the data it contained was misused.After reconstructing the data that was on the missing tape, GE Money began sending out letters to those affected by the breach in December. The company has set up a toll-free number and is offering one year of free credit monitoring services to those affected by the breach.In 2006, retailer TJ Maxx discovered that thieves had&#160;broken into its computer networks, stealing an estimated 94 million credit- and debit-card numbers. Costs related to that breach are expected to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars.GE Money is a division of General Electric.
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Pages were defaced with text that erroneously implied that SCO would sue Microsoft for intellectual-property theft. By George V. Hulme.
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The British government faced fresh embarrassment over losing data Monday after admitting that over three million learner drivers' records were mislaid by a contractor in the United States.
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The software maker has acknowledged it was wrong when it told users certain file formats were insecure.
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Britain's top transport official said Monday that a disk drive containing personal information on three million driving test candidates has been lost in the United States  -  the latest in a series of government blunders over data
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An IT firm is investigating how a hard drive from the Driving Standards Agency went missing in its US premises.
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IBM&#39;s (IBM.N: Quote, Profile, Research) PC unit piled up nearly $1 billion in cumulative losses in recent years, the company said in a filing on Thursday detailing the planned sale of the business to China&#39;s Lenovo Group.
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A state government intern in Ohio last week lost a backup device that contained personal data on more than 64,000 state workers and tens of thousands of other people.
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The UK government says that its U.S. contractor lost a hard drive with personal data on 3 million drivers in training.
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Sensitive customer details are lost in an Atlanta burglary - the third such theft in a year. For the third time in a year, criminals have stolen computers that contained names and sensitive financial information of customers of Wells Fargo &amp; Co.
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Blog: Past and current employees are affected by a third-party tape loss.
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There are multiple known instances of lost or stolen tapes but, to the best of my knowledge, not one reported instance of anyone recovering and maliciously using data stored on missing tapes. It's just too hard for an average thief to retrieve it.
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InfoWorld - The U.K.&#39;s financial services regulator has levied a heavy fine against the nation&#39;s largest building society over a stolen laptop containing confidential customer information.