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Rip of the Week: 447,549 MORE People Breached by BlueCross BlueShield Incident

Things continue to get worse for a major theft from BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee. Back on October 2, 2009, 57 computer hard drives were stolen from an office at the state’s largest health insurer. The breach incident page at DataLossDB is a good clearinghouse for information on the theft. The hard drives contained a large [...]

Rip of the Week: 3.3 Million Student Loan Borrowers Breached

If you are a college student, or were a college student, and you had a student loan, it’s time to worry. Officials of St. Paul-based Educational Credit Management Corp. revealed that an unencrypted portable device was stolen during the weekend of March 20-21. The Wall Street Journal reports, and thanks to kirniki on DLDB for [...]

Rip of the Week: Royal London Mutual Insurance Society Loses Eight Laptops and the Personal Details of 2,135 People

This week’s Rip involves a case of eight lost laptops in the UK, from the Royal London Mutual Insurance Society. According to an SC Magazine report, and thanks to Jake K via DataLossDB, 2,135 people were breached when unencrypted laptops were lost by the RLMIS.
This story, however, is replete with the most poignant and [...]

Tip of the Week: Watch Especially for Malicious Attacks

Continuing yet again to highlight great information found in the “2009 Annual Study: Cost of a Data Breach” by the Ponemon Institute, and sponsored by PGP, another good takeaway concerns malicious attacks versus insider negligence.
Most folks aren’t surprised to hear that malicious and criminal attacks are more expensive (more damaging) than insider negligence [...]

Rip of the Week: Believe it or Not, Another VA Data Breach…Maybe

The news is abuzz this week about an agency that’s no stranger in the data breach world: the Veterans Administration. Recall that back in 2006 the VA suffered a breach that threatened 26.5 million vets, via laptop theft. The Federal Times reports that that VA is investigating reports of a former VA physician’s assistant who [...]

Tip of the Week: Ensure Security Policies and Safeguards Extend to Third Parties

Continuing to highlight great information found in the “2009 Annual Study: Cost of a Data Breach” by the Ponemon Institute, and sponsored by PGP, we focus this week on a nugget that is reminiscent of a key step recommended in the MyLaptopGPS white paper “Multi-Layer Laptop Security.” The breach report notes that “forty-two percent of [...]

Rip of the Week: Thrivent Financial Suffers Mysterious Data Breach

A somewhat curious, and rather terse, laptop theft is this week’s Rip. Thanks to kirniki over at DataLossDB for the tip, National Underwriter reports that Thrivent Financial experienced a break-in at an office in Pennsylvania. A laptop was stolen, which contained personal information, including names, addresses, Social Security Numbers and health information.
But what is curious [...]

Tip of the Week: Believe It or Not, Don’t Act Too SOON

Following up to last week’s Tip, with key findings from the Ponemon Institute’s “2009 Annual Study: Cost of a Data Breach” (found here on the web and sponsored by PGP), there’s another finding that is quite remarkable.
According to the study, on page 4, companies that notify victims too quickly may [in] (sic) fact incur higher [...]