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The biggest data breaches of 2014 (so far) |
July 11, 2014
In the battle to keep your personal information private, it’s not just hackers you have to worry about but lax security and stupidity.A survey of data breaches in the first six months of this year shows an increasing number of incidents in which data, including names and addresses, credit card and Social Security numbers, and medical records was lost to criminals or exposed.In many of the cases, the breaches were put down to poor data security practices or simple errors: like St. Vincent Breast Center in Indianapolis sending 63,000 letters containing information on upcoming appointments to the wrong people, or Stanford Federal Credit Union accidentally attaching a file with information on 18,000 customers to an email, or the thousands of paper medical records dumped at a public incineration site in York, Pennsylvania.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2453400/the-biggest-data-breaches-of-2014-so-far.html#tk.rss_all
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