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FTC Settles Breach Complaint With Student Lender
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 00:26:47 +0000 (UTC)
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,143121-c,privacy/article.html (I don't recall hearing about this one... anyone else?) The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has settled a complaint against student lender Goal Financial after allegations that the company failed to safeguard personal data. Goal Financial allowed two employees to access the personal information of about 7,000 customers and take the information to a competing firm between 2005 and 2006, and the company allowed an employee to sell a hard drive containing the unencrypted personal information of 34,000 customers sometime in 2006, the FTC said. The company failed to protect personal information such as birth dates, Social Security numbers, and income and employment information, the FTC said in its complaint against Goal Financial. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tenable Network Security offers data leakage and compliance monitoring solutions for large and small networks. Scan your network and monitor your traffic to find the data needing protection before it leaks out! http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/compliance.shtml
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