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Re: Personal experiences? Was Re: VISA / 1ST BANK
From: "Ivan Junge" <ijunge () identityrehab com>
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 10:41:59 -0600
The US post office has compromised the security of my mail twice in the past year and sent me a breach notification. They basically said, somebody broke into your locked mailbox and took your mail... sorry. My identity has not yet been stolen. -Ivan -----Original Message----- From: dataloss-bounces () attrition org [mailto:dataloss-bounces () attrition org] On Behalf Of lyger Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 6:22 PM To: dataloss () attrition org Subject: [Dataloss] Personal experiences? Was Re: VISA / 1ST BANK On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, George Toft wrote: ": " I realize the difference - my information has been stolen 4 times, but ": " my ID has not (yet). Now *this* might pose an interesting question for list members willing to respond: By a show of hands (or reply email), how many here have ever received a breach notification or otherwise been informed that their personal information was compromised? In a related question, how many here have been actual victims of identity theft? Lyger = never. And yes, by admitting that fact, I'm probably tempting fate in a big way. ": " > Out of curiousity, did he mention how it was compromised? Data breach of ": " > a third party or did someone stole his wallet? Not much could probably ": " > have been done about the latter, but the former needs to be addressed from ": " > a data protection standpoint, not an "identity theft" one. ": " ": " It was a conversation I overheard. What I got out of it was that his ": " SSN was being used, not his whole ID. The issue surrounded paying for a ": " purchase and they offered him cash, check or charge. He couldn't do ": " check because his SSN was being abused. Interesting that his SSN was somehow tied to his checking account. I honestly don't remember if I had to give by bank that information to open my account. Good food for thought.. _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 137 million compromised records in 430 incidents over 6 years. _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 137 million compromised records in 430 incidents over 6 years.
Current thread:
- Re: VISA / 1ST BANK, (continued)
- Re: VISA / 1ST BANK George Toft (Oct 20)
- Personal experiences? Was Re: VISA / 1ST BANK lyger (Oct 20)
- Re: Personal experiences? Was Re: VISA / 1ST BANK Joshua Fritsch (Oct 20)
- Re: Personal experiences? Was Re: VISA / 1ST BANK Al Mac (Oct 20)
- Re: Personal experiences? Was Re: VISA / 1ST BANK Henry Brown (Oct 23)
- Re: Personal experiences? Was Re: VISA / 1ST BANK ziplock (Oct 21)
- Re: Personal experiences? Was Re: VISA / 1ST BANK Chris Walsh (Oct 21)
- Re: Personal experiences? Was Re: VISA / 1ST BANK ziplock (Oct 22)
- Re: Personal experiences? Was Re: VISA / 1ST BANK Doctor Spook (Oct 22)
- Re: Personal experiences? Was Re: VISA / 1ST BANK dano (Oct 21)
- Re: Personal experiences? Was Re: VISA / 1ST BANK Ivan Junge (Oct 23)
- Re: Personal experiences? Was Re: VISA / 1ST BANK Nick Lewis (Oct 23)
- Re: VISA / 1ST BANK Marjorie Simmons (Oct 20)