Bank warns of possible ID theft
TEXAS CITY - Texas First Bank is notifying about 4,000 customers that their personal information could have been compromised when thieves last month stole a laptop computer during a car theft in Dallas - read more: khou.com
Identity theft may be problem for TAMUCC students
CORPUS CHRISTI - The personal information of thousands of students at Texas A&M Corpus Christi was recently lost in a foreign country. A professor vacationing off the coast of Africa took the data with him on a small computer storage device - read more: kristv.com
iPhone, Gmail, blogs: corporate security risks warned
Analyst companies Forrester and Gartner have both warned this week that the entrance of consumer technologies into the enterprise is impossible to eliminate and challenges traditional security models - read more:
Bank loses details on 62K customers in post
Bank of Scotland yesterday apologised to 62,000 customers after it confirmed that their mortgage details have been reported missing. A computer disc containing details of the mortgage accounts failed to reach the main credit reference agencies for a routine monthly update - read more:
ChoicePoint settles with 44 states over data breach two years ago
ChoicePoint Inc. has reached a settlement with Vermont and 43 other states over allegations it failed to adequately secure consumers' personal information related to a breach of its database it disclosed in 2005 - read more: accessnorthga.com
NU contacting 4K after security breach
EVANSTON, Ill. Northwestern University is attempting to contact about 4,000 students and applicants after it was discovered that files containing their personal information had become available online - read more:
Credit union paying for ID theft protection after info error
Jax Federal Credit Union is paying for two years' worth of identity theft protection for thousands of its members after their Social Security numbers ended up on the Internet - read more:
Europe considers new identity theft laws
The European Commission is to consider new identity fraud legislation in order to boost the fight against cyber crime. - read more: securecomputing.net.au
UK database theft hurts customers
Cable & Wireless has served an injunction against a former executive following the theft of a 100,000 customer database - read more: bbc.co.uk Sam Gerrans, Senior Technology Consultant at InfoWatch said, "While we must reserve judgment on the woman accused in the case until a court of law brings in a verdict, my question is: where are the court actions against the companies involved? Had they had adequate procedures in place this would never have happened.
Robbery puts police at risk from ID theft
WYLIE - Law officers from all across Texas could be at risk from identity theft because a database containing their personal information may have got into the wrong hands. - read more: wfaa.com
