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Re: CTS: Thief Steals Tax Records
From: George Toft <george () myitaz com>
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2007 11:37:36 -0700
We tried to alert them all. We published articles and ads in the Arizona Society of CPA magazine. George Toft, CISSP, MSIS My IT Department www.myITaz.com 623-203-1760 Confidential data protection experts for the financial industry. blitz wrote:
So one would/might postulate at this point the thieves are selecting smaller targets, with less names and info. Especially ones with less security, and obviously more to loose should they be compromised. */There should be an alert to them all. /*At 23:39 2/3/2007, you wrote:I would expect to see more of these. I met an accountant in Phoenix that had just her hard drives stolen - guess what the thief was after? This is a sore point for me - we hired a telemarketer to call every CPA in Phoenix. There was virtually no interest on the part of the CPA's to protect their customer's information from this type of event. BTW - 800 people for one firm means it's a small firm. George Toft, CISSP, MSIS My IT Department www.myITaz.com <http://www.myitaz.com/> 623-203-1760 Confidential data protection experts for the financial industry. Dissent wrote:http://www.wndu.com/news/headlines/5530966.html Eight hundred people are in jeopardy of having their credit ruined, because thieves in the night stole their personal information from a Cassopolis tax preparer.
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- CTS: Thief Steals Tax Records Dissent (Feb 03)
- Re: CTS: Thief Steals Tax Records George Toft (Feb 03)
- Re: CTS: Thief Steals Tax Records blitz (Feb 04)
- VA Breach - Stupidity Redux James Childers (Feb 04)
- Re: CTS: Thief Steals Tax Records George Toft (Feb 04)
- Re: CTS: Thief Steals Tax Records James Childers (Feb 04)
- Re: CTS: Thief Steals Tax Records George Toft (Feb 04)
- Re: CTS: Thief Steals Tax Records James Childers (Feb 04)
- Re: CTS: Thief Steals Tax Records lyger (Feb 04)
- Re: CTS: Thief Steals Tax Records James Childers (Feb 04)
- Re: CTS: Thief Steals Tax Records blitz (Feb 04)
- Re: CTS: Thief Steals Tax Records George Toft (Feb 03)
- Re: CTS: Thief Steals Tax Records Adam Shostack (Feb 04)
- Re: CTS: Thief Steals Tax Records B.K. DeLong (Feb 04)
- Re: CTS: Thief Steals Tax Records George Toft (Feb 04)
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