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National Archives Facilitated Data Breach?
Published on 2 Oct, 2009 at 11:46 in Cyber | Viewed 82 times | No Comments
The National Archives and Records Administration may have sent out a disk with confidential information on 70 million veterans, and the incident has been referred to the inspector general for investigation.
A defective hard drive was allegedly sent back to the vendor for repair without being wiped of data.
An IT professional at NARA believes the data breach is indicative of poor security awareness at NARA, according to Wired.com….
Data Breach Potentially Compromises SSNs
Published on 28 Sep, 2009 at 12:12 in Cyber | Viewed 115 times | No Comments
According to Computerworld, the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill notified more than 160,000 women Friday their Social Security numbers may have been compromised by a recent breach by hackers.
The system breach was discovered in July, and it appears that some data theft may have occurred as far back as 2007.
The hacked system contained information on a federally funded research study…
