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Re: VISA / 1ST BANK
From: George Toft <george () myitaz com>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 16:35:14 -0700
lyger wrote:
On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, George Toft wrote: ": " Until the lawmakers of Washington suffer ID Theft, nothing will change. ": " If I were an ID thief, I would definitely dump any high profile name ": " from my database - no need to spoil the party. And the party will ": " continue until some high profile politico gets burned. But data loss <> ID theft. If data is lost or stolen regardless of an actual theft of an identity or identities, said data has been compromised even if no access can be proven. Things *can* change, but it has to start with the actual protection of personal data and not wait until the media starts screaming "IDENTITY THEFT" in the headlines.
I realize the difference - my information has been stolen 4 times, but my ID has not (yet). Information protection received a major blow this month now that CPA's are exempt from Gramm-Leach-Bliley (or so says my recent ASCPA newsletter). Not that many of them actually knew they were under this legislation or even cared.
": " I was in Home Depot this week at the customer service counter. A ": " customer was telling the clerk about someone running around with his ": " SSN. It is becomming commonplace (at least in Arizona). ": " ": " George Toft, CISSP, MSIS Out of curiousity, did he mention how it was compromised? Data breach of a third party or did someone stole his wallet? Not much could probably have been done about the latter, but the former needs to be addressed from a data protection standpoint, not an "identity theft" one.
It was a conversation I overheard. What I got out of it was that his SSN was being used, not his whole ID. The issue surrounded paying for a purchase and they offered him cash, check or charge. He couldn't do check because his SSN was being abused. George _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 137 million compromised records in 430 incidents over 6 years.
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