Thursday, March 16, 2006

If I had a Dime for Every Data Breach...

Register (UK) : Ernst & Young has lost another laptop containting the social security numbers and other personal information of its clients' employees. This time, the incident puts thousands of IBM workers at risk.

Ex-IBM employees are also affected.

The Register has learned that the laptop was stolen from an Ernst & Young employee's car in January. The employee handled some of the tax functions Ernst & Young does for IBM's workers who have been stationed overseas at one time or another during their careers. As a result of the theft, the names, dates of birth, genders, family sizes, SSNs and tax identifiers for IBM employees have been exposed.

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I used to blog every data breach that I could find, but it is starting to get crazy. You could run a whole daily blog on just data breaches, so I stopped trying. However, I did find a very cool place that keeps up with them almost daily.

The Chronology of Data Breaches over at Privacyrights.org records every major public data breach since the ChoicePoint incident of 2005.

Now if I had a dime for every data breach on that list....

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