Hartford Financial misplaces back-up tapes with personal data on policy holders
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The personal data of some 237,000 policy holders at Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. -- stored on back-up tapes that were misplaced -- may have been compromised, the company said.
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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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Thousands of credit card numbers and other personal data may have been compromised.
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An unencrypted tape containing information on 650,000 retail credit card accounts from 230 U.S. retailers has gone missing from an Iron Mountain facility.
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A consumer advocacy organization says companies and institutions have collectively fumbled roughly 93,754,333 private records in the last two years.
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The records of nearly 2.3 million consumers have been exposed after an employee of a Fidelity National Information Services subsidiary stole the information and then proceeded to sell it to a data broker.
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Reports of corporate data leaks, lost laptops, and misplaced backup tapes are so commonplace that many no longer warrant a mention in the press. So common are corporate data leaks of one form or another that only the multimegaton events -- TJX, the Veterans Administration, or DuPont -- get covered.
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The transfer of confidential banking records by a Belgium-based company to U.S. authorities for use in anti-terrorism investigations breached Belgian and likely European Union data privacy rules, top government ...Comment
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Federal regulators and prosecutors are scouring tape recordings of more than 150 Riggs Bank board meetings as they investigate what role top executives, including former chairman Joe L. Allbritton, played in more than a decade of violations of anti-money-laundering laws at the company, according to five sources familiar with the tapes.
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The White House has acknowledged in a new court filing that it routinely recycled computer back-up tapes containing its e-mail records until October 2003, a practice that could mean that many electronic messages from the first two years of the Bush administration are lost forever.
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Nine health trusts have lost thousands of their patients' details, it was reported Sunday, in the latest data scandal to hit the British government.
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Hartford Life, a unit of the Hartford Financial Services Group Inc., said Friday it is being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission for its use of "directed brokerage" in connection with its mutual funds.
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Morgan Stanley employees mined the CareerBuilder.com website for personal data such as phone numbers to make cold calls pitching financial products, Massachusetts Secretary of State William F. Galvin alleged in a complaint filed yesterday.
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The new version of the personal finance program drops support for a widely used file format.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. - Hewlett-Packard Co. officials said Saturday that the company improperly accessed phone records of a corporate spokesman during its investigation into unauthorized leaks to the press.
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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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Time to call the credit bureaus? Almost 1.4 million records containing the personal information of Californians likely stolen.