Well, we're not even two weeks into the month of August and more than 32,000 people have had their personal information compromised because of data security breaches.  Including one at the National Finance Center in Washington D.C. that exposed the names and Social Security numbers of 27,000 Commerce Department employees.  Finance and Commerce – they [...]

  Well, the figures for 2007 are in.  There were 656 data breaches reported last year, up 47% from the 2007 figure of 446, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC).  These breaches involved over 35 million records, with insider theft more than doubling from 2007 to 2008.  And the outlook for 2009 isn’t [...]

  If you have a credit card of any type, you probably have received a Privacy Notice from the credit card company, usually included with one of your monthly statements.  It is a typical corporate notice, identifiable by the tiny print on several pages of legal sounding disclosures.  If you are like most people, it [...]

The Arizona Daily Star is reporting that an Arizona Department of Economic Security hard-drive containing personal and sensitive information for a number of Arizona children was stolen from a storage unit in Phoenix.  Several other storage units, not belonging to DES, were also broken into, so it does not appear that the DES unit was specifically [...]

Just today Wells Fargo announced that up to 5000 people may have had their personal information compromised from unauthorized activity in May and June of 2008.
Privacy Rights Clearinghouse also reported today that hundreds of private and personal information files, including Social Security numbers, were thrown out in the trash at San Antonio, Texas, Child Protective [...]