Tag archive for ‘theft’
UPDATE: Breached Data of 3.3 Million Student Loan Borrowers Found…In Police Evidence Room
Here’s an update to a recent Rip of the Week concerning 3.3 million breached records of federal student loan recipients. It turns out that the data, which existed on “CDs and floppy discs,” was recovered shortly after the theft and was only recently discovered in a police evidence room, and connected to the case.
WCCO reports, [...]
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 [...]
Tip of the Week: Use Technology to Beat Your Employees
Interesting: back on May 27, my Tip of the Week was entitled “Assume Your Employees Ignore You.” I described how employees really pay little attention to company policy, or even actively break it.
Then, two weeks (to the day) later, Ponemon Institute released another superb study, sponsored by IronKey, this time entitled “Trends in Insider Compliance [...]
Think You Know What a Thief Would Do With Your Data?
You might want to think again. An interesting article at SC Magazine points out the need to watch what thieves actually are doing with data, not just what we predict or expect them to be doing with it.
Fact is, a thief may be after your data for reasons entirely beyond what you’d expect. And this [...]
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