I don’t know if I should laugh or cry. *speechless*
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April 15, 2008 8:15pm
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#2 / Apr 15, 2008 9:03pm
I don’t know if I should laugh or cry. *speechless*
#3 / Apr 16, 2008 3:44am
It has happened in the UK with our government losing CDs with social security data on them.
More reason to have a central respository like OpenID and having organsiations query a secure service rather than have multiple instances of your personal data all over the place that incompetent people can lose or expose!
#4 / Apr 16, 2008 4:56am
It happens every week in the UK now. Last week my bank lost a disk of customer information.
#5 / Apr 16, 2008 5:10am
Apparently the CDS were protected with encryption though so come on let’s not be too tough on them, I mean it was probably on a really great encryption scheme…
…such as the name and password either written in big inky letters on the CD itself or even more securely a text file on the CD with that information on.
Come on now at least they tried 😉
That story just makes me want to laugh.
Best wishes,
Mark
#6 / Apr 16, 2008 4:01pm
Ouch, that really got the ol’ tummy churning. I imagine there are 10,597 lawsuits in the works right now.
I recently saw an article that the black market value of a credit card number, complete with CV2 code, is $1.50 US. I couldn’t believe it when I read it but I’m starting to see why.
#7 / Apr 16, 2008 5:43pm
Also over here (UK) one of the major newspapers ran a story about a call-centre in India that takes all of our calls for online banking and such things and they were able to pay someone over there just £200 or something daft like that and they were given a list of hundreds of thousands of peoples bank details with full access to all of them!!
This kind of thing makes me really really want to shake some people by the neck!
Mark