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LA: La. Security Breach Exposes Thousands To ID Theft
From: Dave <dave () etiolated org>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 08:44:15 -0400
http://www.wdsu.com/news/13698832/detail.html In all, more than 80,000 names and Social Security numbers were accessible for perhaps as long as two years on an internal Internet website run by the Louisiana Board of Regents, the body that has oversight over HOW MANY students at WHICH universities. "Well, it's a recipe for identity theft if you have a name, a Social Security number, a date of birth and an address, you can create an identity that will lead to fraudulently bilking credit cards, tampering with bank accounts and the like," the FBI's James Bernazzani said. "Additionally, someone can apply for a driver's license or other photo identification. They can make counterfeit checks. They can apply for a job. They can get an apartment. They can do any number of these things with your identity," FBI cyber expert Kristy Green said. Most of the network was password-protected, but the area containing the most potentially dangerous data, including thousands of student Social Security numbers, was not. [..] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 213 million compromised records in 720 incidents over 7 years.
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