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Re: UK: Standard Life customers are hit by breach in security
From: Adam Shostack <adam () homeport org>
Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 21:39:18 -0400
(That's really strange--I was trying to reply to the Linden labs message. Context: http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/05/04/age-and-indentity-verification-in-second-life/ and http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/05/07/more-on-identity-verification/ On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 09:29:10PM -0400, Adam Shostack wrote: | They're just doing this so that their demands for more personal | information don't seem so scary. | | Adam | | | On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 12:58:09AM +0000, lyger wrote: | | | | (good thing they didn't have only 600 customers... a 50% impact rate would | | have looked a lot worse in the media...) | | | | http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=716812007 | | | | STANDARD Life has admitted that up to 300 customers may have been affected | | by a security breach in which personal information was sent to others by | | mistake. | | | | The blunder, described as a "one-off error" in its information systems, | | caused some customers to receive policy documents meant for others. It is | | the latest in a series of data protection breaches by big companies. | | | | [...] | | | | "Less than 0.2 per cent of our valued investors have been impacted by | | this. We have acted swiftly to make investors aware of the error." | | | | A letter explaining the error was sent to hundreds of customers over the | | weekend. | | | | It is thought to have affected people recently applying for new ISA | | policies and the data included names, addresses and policy numbers but not | | personal financial information, such as income or tax codes. | | | | [...] | | _______________________________________________ | | Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) | | http://attrition.org/dataloss | | Tracking more than 207 million compromised records in 649 incidents over 7 years. | _______________________________________________ | Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) | http://attrition.org/dataloss | Tracking more than 207 million compromised records in 649 incidents over 7 years. _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 207 million compromised records in 649 incidents over 7 years.
Current thread:
- UK: Standard Life customers are hit by breach in security lyger (May 08)
- Re: UK: Standard Life customers are hit by breach in security Adam Shostack (May 08)
- Re: UK: Standard Life customers are hit by breach in security Adam Shostack (May 08)
- Re: UK: Standard Life customers are hit by breach in security Adam Shostack (May 08)