Another case of massive consumer data theft

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Ex-Teledata employee pleads guilty in
massive ID theft case

Ex-Teledata employee pleads guilty in
massive ID theft case 09/15/2004 05:26 PM
Prosecutors said the Georgia man, a former help desk employee at Teledata Communications, was involved in a scheme to steal the identities of up to 30,000 people.

Man pleads guilty in massive credit info
theft case

Man pleads guilty in massive credit info
theft case 09/15/2004 01:34 PM
A man charged in one of the largest identity theft scams in U.S. history pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy, wire fraud, and fraud in connection with identity documents Tuesday and could face up to 50 years in prison, according to a statement from U.S. Attorney David Kelley, of the Southern District of New York.

Crown appeal dismissed in computer data
theft case

Crown appeal dismissed in computer data
theft case 01/01/2004 11:04 AM
Royal Gazette Jan 1 2004 10:19AM ET

Massive LexisNexis ID Theft Feared

Massive LexisNexis ID Theft Feared 04/12/2005 09:54 AM
CBS News Apr 12 2005 1:54PM GMT

Advertiser Charged in Massive Database
Theft

Advertiser Charged in Massive Database
Theft 07/22/2004 08:19 PM

Man pleads guilty in massive identity
theft

Man pleads guilty in massive identity
theft 09/15/2004 09:55 AM
ZDNet Sep 15 2004 1:46PM GMT

Advertiser Charged in Massive Database
Theft (washingtonpost.com)

Advertiser Charged in Massive Database
Theft (washingtonpost.com) 07/22/2004 06:12 AM
washingtonpost.com - Federal authorities yesterday charged an online advertiser in Florida with tapping into the computer system of a large database marketer in Arkansas and stealing "vast amounts of personal information" about Americans in what they described as one of the largest network intrusions in recent memory.

ID theft, online auctions top list of
consumer complaints

ID theft, online auctions top list of
consumer complaints 02/01/2005 09:25 PM
SiliconValley.com Feb 1 2005 4:36PM GMT

Massive Credit Card Security Breach Puts
40 Million Consumers at Risk for
Identity Theft – Tips to Protect
Yourself from Financial Expert

Massive Credit Card Security Breach Puts
40 Million Consumers at Risk for
Identity Theft – Tips to Protect
Yourself from Financial Expert 06/22/2005 01:51 AM
Master Card and Visa security breaches are becoming almost common. Last week’s announcement of hackers accessing records from CardSystems Solutions Inc. means up to 40 million credit card holders may be at risk of identity theft. Financial Planning Expert Jim Trippon CPA offers practical pro-active ideas to protect your financial privacy. [PRWEB Jun 19, 2005]

Massive UT Hack Leaks SSN Data

Massive UT Hack Leaks SSN Data 03/11/2003 01:22 AM
Officials at the University of Texas at Austin admitted a massive 'deliberate attack' breached its computer system and exposed personal data of approximately 55,200 individuals.

Massive Data Aggregation with Perl

Massive Data Aggregation with Perl 06/05/2005 10:46 PM
What do you do if you have a huge array of disparate data sources from which to collect and present data in multiple formats? First, reach for Perl. Then...good question. Fred Moyer explains how his team designed and built a system to aggregate and present huge amounts of data with Perl.

Massive Taiwanese fraud case shocks U.S.
tech company

Massive Taiwanese fraud case shocks U.S.
tech company 11/19/2003 05:51 PM
SiliconValley.com Nov 19 2003 4:03PM ET

LexisNexis Suddenly Notices Massive Data
Security Breaches Everywhere They Look

LexisNexis Suddenly Notices Massive Data
Security Breaches Everywhere They Look 04/12/2005 06:01 AM
Funny how once the media attention for the various computer security break-ins started receiving attention, the various firms who were caught handing out your private data suddenly noticed that they'd actually been leaking data all along. Choicepoint, which was the first big one to admit a problem, later found a histo ry of leaked data. It appears they're not alone. LexisNexis, whose Seisant subsidiary wasn't particularly careful in how it kept all that data about you that you didn't realize they had (much of it, probably wrong ), decided that maybe it would be a smart move to look over some past transactions to see if this data leakage was a new problem. Turns out that it wasn't. LexisNexis is now admitting that they found not one or two more cases, but fifty-nine cases where their security was breached, opening up access to all sorts of private data (this is one of the databases the government likes to use to build profiles on people). The company is sending out letters to 280,000 people to let them know that they may have to spend the rest of their lives carefully scanning credit reports to make sure the company's own negligence didn't result in identity theft. Meanwhile, everyone's still being told that, basically, there 's nothing they can do against any of these firms that didn't seem to care about your privacy at all.

Massive Taiwanese fraud case cripples
prestigious law firm, shocks U.S. tech
company

Massive Taiwanese fraud case cripples
prestigious law firm, shocks U.S. tech
company 11/19/2003 02:09 PM
San Francisco Chronicle Nov 19 2003 1:41PM ET

Romanian indicted in Net theft case

Romanian indicted in Net theft case 08/06/2004 08:03 PM
globetechnology.com Aug 7 2004 0:55AM GMT

Data theft understated

Data theft understated 04/12/2005 11:50 PM
USA Today Apr 13 2005 3:49AM GMT

Still Another Data Theft Discovered

Still Another Data Theft Discovered 03/14/2005 04:34 PM
According to this ARS article, another 32,000 US Citizen's dates of birth, SS numbers, drivers license numbers, and other ID info were all stolen from Seisant, a division of Reed Elsevier.

Reed Elsevier says it is in the process of contacting those affected by the breach and will offer them assistance in detecting any possible identity theft resulting from their lapse.Seisint, which was acquired by Reed Elsevier in 2004, has previously come under criticism for giving government officials the names of 120,000 people who supposedly fit terrorist profiles in the wake of the attacks of September 11, 2001. Now, it joins the growing list of companies that traffic in consumer data without taking adequate safeguards to protect it.

Arrests in Half-Life 2 theft case

Arrests in Half-Life 2 theft case 06/11/2004 04:56 AM
The FBI has arrested several people suspected of stealing source code for the Half-Life 2 video game.

Arrests made in offshoring theft case

Arrests made in offshoring theft case 04/11/2005 01:56 PM
ZDNet UK Apr 11 2005 5:16PM GMT

Guilty Plea In Huge ID Theft Case

Guilty Plea In Huge ID Theft Case 09/16/2004 01:47 AM
CBS News Sep 16 2004 5:26AM GMT

DSW Data Theft Much Larger Than
Estimated (AP)

DSW Data Theft Much Larger Than
Estimated (AP) 04/19/2005 08:45 AM
AP - Thieves who accessed a DSW Shoe Warehouse database obtained 1.4 million credit card numbers and the names on those accounts — 10 times more than investigators estimated last month.

Data theft motivates Congress

Data theft motivates Congress 04/16/2005 05:47 AM
USA Today Apr 16 2005 9:53AM GMT

Personal Data Theft: It's Outrageous

Personal Data Theft: It's Outrageous 04/18/2005 08:41 AM
Business Week Apr 18 2005 12:39PM GMT

LexisNexis: 280,000 more possible data
theft victims

LexisNexis: 280,000 more possible data
theft victims 04/12/2005 01:39 PM
An internal investigation at the LexisNexis division of Reed Elsevier has uncovered evidence that as many as 310,000 more people may have had their personal information exposed to unauthorized individuals who compromised the security of a massive database of public and private information, including Social Security and drivers license numbers.

DSW Data Theft Larger Than Predicted

DSW Data Theft Larger Than Predicted 04/19/2005 04:37 AM
AP via Los Angeles Times Apr 19 2005 7:49AM GMT

DSW Data Theft Larger Than Predicted
(AP)

DSW Data Theft Larger Than Predicted
(AP) 04/18/2005 11:16 PM
AP - Thieves who accessed a DSW Shoe Warehouse database obtained 1.4 million credit card numbers and the names on those accounts — 10 times more than investigators estimated last month.

Two held for theft of Internet data

Two held for theft of Internet data 05/31/2004 08:22 AM
Big News Network May 31 2004 12:24PM GMT

Data Theft Suspect Busted

Data Theft Suspect Busted 07/23/2004 04:34 AM
In what the feds are calling perhaps the largest theft of personal data ever, a Florida man is arrested for stealing consumer information from Acxiom Corp., apparently intending to use it to feed his e-mail ad business.

Guilty Plea in AOL Engineer's Address
Theft Case

Guilty Plea in AOL Engineer's Address
Theft Case 02/05/2005 09:37 PM
Slashdot Feb 4 2005 11:44PM GMT

Florida hacker indicted in big online
theft case

Florida hacker indicted in big online
theft case 07/22/2004 07:44 AM
A 45-year-old man has been indicted on charges of hacking into the computers of the marketing company Acxiom Corp., in Little Rock, Arkansas, to access its databases filled with personal, financial, and company information, the office of the U.S. Attorney General said Wednesday.

LexisNexis Uncovers More Consumer Data
Breaches

LexisNexis Uncovers More Consumer Data
Breaches 04/12/2005 01:17 PM
Personal information on 310,000 U.S. citizens may have been stolen from its computer systems, 10 times more than its initial estimate last month, data broker LexisNexis said.

LexisNexis: More Consumer Data Breaches
(Reuters)

LexisNexis: More Consumer Data Breaches
(Reuters) 04/12/2005 11:10 AM
Reuters - Data broker LexisNexis said on Tuesday that personal information on 310,000 U.S. citizens may have been stolen from its computer systems, 10 times more than its initial estimate last month.

Consumer Prices Drop, Other Data Point
Up

Consumer Prices Drop, Other Data Point
Up 08/17/2004 09:11 PM
Reuters via Wired News Aug 18 2004 1:46AM GMT

Some MasterCard holders exposed to data
theft

Some MasterCard holders exposed to data
theft 04/14/2005 10:08 PM

Workplace data theft runs rampant

Workplace data theft runs rampant 02/15/2004 03:33 AM
Many staff are happy to steal key information from the firms they work for, a study has found.

Laptop theft leaks data of 98,000 people

Laptop theft leaks data of 98,000 people 04/01/2005 03:37 AM
TechSpot Apr 1 2005 8:10AM GMT

Preventing Data Theft From A Stolen
Laptop

Preventing Data Theft From A Stolen
Laptop 12/24/2003 07:39 AM

Guilty Plea in Theft of Data on AOL
Users

Guilty Plea in Theft of Data on AOL
Users 02/05/2005 09:04 PM
A former software engineer at America Online pleaded guilty to stealing and selling user names and e-mail addresses, setting off an avalanche of up to seven billion unsolicited e-mail messages.

Computer theft may expose data on
180,000 patients

Computer theft may expose data on
180,000 patients 04/08/2005 05:45 PM
Two computers containing information on 180,000 patients were stolen from San Jose Medical Group on March 28.
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