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Utah Division of Finance Reports Security Breach
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 05:36:54 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I hadn't seen this one come across the list... An all-too-familiar story. Via The Desert Morning News. [snip] Computer files containing the personal information of approximately 500 individuals may have been accessed by unauthorized persons during a security breach at the Utah Division of Finance. However, Department of Administrative Services spokeswoman Vicki Schoenfeld said in a press release an initial investigation indicates it is highly unlikely the person who breached the computer system was able to access the personal information. As a precautionary measure, the Department of Administrative Services will make every effort to contact all individuals whose personal information was potentially exposed, Schoenfeld said. "We are now taking steps to determine the amount of information, if any, that was accessed by unauthorized persons. Utah attorney general special agents assigned to the Identity Theft Task Force are investigating this matter," Schoenfeld said. State computer systems withstand more than 100,000 potential attacks a day, according to the press release. The state encourages individuals to be proactive and visit the IRIS ID Theft information and reporting Web site, www.idtheft.utah.gov, for precautionary information about preventing identity theft. [snip] Link: http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695261923,00.html - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFH31Txq1pz9mNUZTMRApefAJ9TV7O25bPLJIDm5fzT53wsZJKC2wCeII7U Z1FIAxoBygYhKwAksVTtyKk= =/677 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ 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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