Tag: data breach

Too many SSNs floating around

July 14, 2015

– by
Jeremy Epstein

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Privacy & Security

In terms of impact, the OPM data breach involving security clearance information is almost certainly the most severe data breach in American history. The media has focused too much on social security numbers in its reporting, but is slowly starting to understand the bigger issues for anyone who has a clearance, or is a relative…
Sloppy Reporting on the "University Personal Records" Data Breach by the New York Times Bits Blog

October 4, 2012

– by
Stephen Schultze

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Privacy & Security

This morning I ran across a distressing headline while perusing my RSS feeds. The New York Times’ Bits Blog proclaimed that, “Hackers Breach 53 Universities and Dump Thousands of Personal Records Online.” I clicked, and was informed that: Hackers published online Monday thousands of personal records from 53 universities, including Harvard, Stanford, Cornell, Princeton, Johns…