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follow-up: Firm Hired After Security Breach Faces State Probe (fwd)
From: security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:24:26 +0000 (UTC)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org> http://www.courant.com/business/hc-debix0822.artaug22,0,3146872.story By JANICE PODSADA Courant Staff Writer August 22, 2008 Gov. M. Jodi Rell said Thursday that she wants an investigation into a company the state hired to offer credit monitoring to people affected by a security breach involving a stolen Department of Revenue Services laptop computer. The laptop contained Social Security numbers and bank account information for thousands of state residents. State officials hired Debix Identity Protection Network last year after the laptop was stolen from an employee's car in August 2007. As part of its contract, Debix, based in Austin, Texas, agreed to monitor the credit reports of 53,000 people through the three major credit bureaus. The state received complaints after those people received letters from Experian, one of the three credit bureaus, asking for confidential information in order to continue the monitoring, Rell said. [...] _______________________________________________ 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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- follow-up: Firm Hired After Security Breach Faces State Probe (fwd) security curmudgeon (Aug 25)
- Re: follow-up: Firm Hired After Security Breach Faces State Probe (fwd) Adam Shostack (Aug 25)
- Re: follow-up: Firm Hired After Security Breach FacesState Probe (fwd) Michael Hill, CITRMS (Aug 26)
- Re: follow-up: Firm Hired After Security Breach FacesState Probe (fwd) Jamie C. Pole (Aug 26)
- Re: follow-up: Firm Hired After Security Breach FacesState Probe (fwd) Michael Hill, CITRMS (Aug 26)
- Re: follow-up: Firm Hired After Security Breach Faces State Probe (fwd) Adam Shostack (Aug 25)