FAA Screws 45,000 Employees
Someone at the FAA neglected to secure one of their systems and allowed all of the personally identifiable information on
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SRA Screws its Employees and its Fed Customers
Happy happy, joy, joy. I got my notification letter from a previous employer, SRA International. They said that there was
Read MoreEBAY Sale: Personal Data of Over a Million Bank Customers
An employee swipes an old system from his company and sells it for crack money on EBAY. On the old
Read MoreSupreme Court Justice Among 2000 Screwed by Investment firm
According to Brian Krebs of the WaPo, an employee of a local DC area investment firm installed Limewire on her
Read MoreUniversity of Florida Screws its Students
Dumbass students put a spreadsheet or database containing almost 12,000 students names, addresses and social security numbers online, with no
Read MoreBritish MoD Screws 600,000 Recruits
The bad news is that 600,000 people may have their personal information exposed because one idiotic recruiter left his unencrypted
Read MoreBritish Government Screws Half of British Citizens
At least the half that gets welfare checks for having children. Two disks, put in the snail mail system, mailed
Read MoreTJMaxx Announces They Are Not Finished Screwing Their Customers
The breach of TJMaxx customer data, which I initially wrote about here, has been updated. Brian Krebs at the WaPo
Read MoreHome Depot Screws its Employees
Data Loss? You can do it. We can help.™ Home Depot’s soon-to-be-fired regional manager left a laptop in his car
Read MoreThe Gap Screws 800k Job Applicants
The Gap group, which includes Gap Stores, Banana Republic, and Old Navy, hired an external consultant to manage their job
Read MoreMizzou Can’t Patch Computers
Back in January, University of Missouri allowed hackers into the network through a weak online grant application. They had to
Read MoreCalifornia National Guard Screws Border Soldiers
Some 2000 soldiers who were serving on the border with Mexico in Operation Vista may have had their personal identitifying
Read MoreTJMaxx Hacked- Customers Screwed
It doesn’t surprise me that a discount store also used discounted security to run their backend enterprise. The company admits
Read MoreBoeing Screws 382k Current and Former Employees
Boeing is still refusing to encrypt portable electronic devices, which is surprising given both the ease of use and availability
Read MoreBelchSpeak’s Best of 2006
2006 was a remarkable year in my life, and much of it was documented on the pages of this blog.
Read MoreUCLA Screws 800K
Lax security at the campus of UCLA allowed hackers a year and more to harvest and collect personally identifiable data
Read MoreCompulinx Screws Employees, Maybe Customers
Strictly speaking in terms of cash amounts, Terrence Chalk is a small time hood compared to Ken Lay and the
Read MoreEncrypted Hard Drives
I have documented in this space numerous times how the government and private industry have been screwing their employees and
Read MoreGE Screws 50,000 Employees
GE had a laptop swiped from a hotel room that contained the names and socials of 50k current and former
Read MoreChase Screws 2.6 Million Circuit City Customers
When I was twenty-something, one of my first credit cards was a Circuit City Card. It was paid off long
Read MoreCensus Department Cant Count Laptops
After all of the brouhaha over the Veterans Administration and other federal agencies losing laptops, the Department of Commerce sheepishly
Read MoreTSA Screws Former Employees
This screwing was assisted by Accenture. It seems that some standard documents that contained the socials, birthdates and other personally
Read MoreAT&T Screws Its DSL Customers
It seems that AT&T left a vulnerability on one of their webservers that allowed hackers to peek inside its online
Read MoreDept. of Transportation Screws Floridians
An Inspector General with the Department of Transportation, who carries a gun as part of his job, neglected to secure
Read MoreDeloitte and Touche Screw Armstrong World Employees
Deloitte and Touche (or is it toilet and douche?) got sloppy with customer data again. Just months after a D&T
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