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Morgan Stanley warns 34,000 clients of data breach
From: security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 21:09:56 -0500 (CDT)
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20077001-245/report-morgan-stanley-warns-34000-clients-of-data-breach/#ixzz1RHq6SALd July 5, 2011 3:47 PM PDT Report: Morgan Stanley warns 34,000 clients of data breach by Elinor Mills Morgan Stanley Smith Barney has warned 34,000 customers that their addresses, account and tax ID numbers, and other data--including Social Security numbers for some--may have been stolen, the Credit.com news site reported today. The data was reportedly on two CD-ROM discs that were password-protected but not encrypted, according to two letters Morgan Stanley sent to customers on June 24. The package containing the CDs was intact when it arrived at the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance but the CDs were missing when the package arrived on the desk of its intended recipient, Jim Wiggins, a Morgan Stanley Smith Barney spokesman told Credit.com. [..] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () datalossdb org) Archived at http://seclists.org/dataloss/ Unsubscribe at http://datalossdb.org/mailing_list Learn encryption strategies that manage risk and shore up compliance. Download Article 1 of CREDANT Technologies' The Essentials Series: Endpoint Data Encryption That Actually Works http://credant.com/campaigns/realtime2/gap-LP1/
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