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NC: Loss, theft of personai data reported
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 16:58:04 +0000 (UTC)
http://www.newsobserver.com/102/story/552644.html Recent laws requiring businesses and governments to inform consumers when their personal information may have been lost or stolen have helped uncover more than 100 security breaches in North Carolina. A total of 103 breaches that involved information about more than 500,000 North Carolina consumers have been reported since the laws took effect in 2005 and 2006, state Attorney General Roy Cooper said in a news release today. Of those breaches, half involved the theft of laptops, computers or other equipment containing personal information. Nearly 20 percent of breaches were caused by unauthorized release or display of information, and nearly 18 percent were the result of hackers. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 149 million compromised records in 592 incidents over 7 years.
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