Entries from Oracle IRM, the official blog tagged with 'data loss'
Peer-to-peer network exposes document detailing US Congress ethics probes
Over the weekend a document containing confidential information from one of the most secretive panels in Congress was floating about on an peer-to-peer network. Apparently a junior member of staff went home to work on the memo and stored the...
Twittergate? Twitter employee hacked and loses hundreds of documents
News broke this month about the hacking of Twitter CEO Evan Williams’s email account. His wife and two other Twitter employees also had email accounts hacked. As a result the hacker, French in origin, was able to access numerous...
Data on Presidential helicopter goes astray
The BBC reports that information about the Presidential helicopter has been exposed inappropriately. Apparently an executive working for a defense contractor was running file sharing software, and the file in question wound up on an Iranian computer. The information was...
Laid off workers stealing company data
More news articles published this week are raising awareness of risks involved with sensitive information leaving your organization when employees are laid off. Another research study from the Ponemon Institute, in conjunction with Symantec, surveyed 945 adults in the...
Email circular exposes sensitive board minutes
Having just read Simon's comments on securing email, I can't resist mentioning a recent report in the UK press about a company that accidentally exposed its board's thinking on how to cope with the current economic downturn. According to the...
UK citizens' private information being lost at record rate
Tis not a good time to be a UK citizen right now, "your personal information of UK citizens is being lost and stolen at an unprecedented rate", the UK’s privacy watchdog said today. However, if you happen to be one...
Average loss of data breach in 2008 = $6.65 million and results in lost customers
CIO.com have published an article by Dr. Larry Ponemon of the Ponemon Institute. It continues the relentless reports of how data loss incidents are on the rise and the associated costs. The article discusses the results of the recent annual...
Kaiser Permanente becomes another healthcare data loss casulty
A news report in the San Francisco bay area has brought attention to Kaiser warning nearly 30,000 employees of a data breach involving their names, addresses and social security numbers. Infact a handful of employees have already reported incidents of...
Data breach incidents are increasing
I'm hearing it from everyone, data loss and security data breaches are on the up. Everyone has their own perception on why this is so, but they are all pretty much in agreement that with the current state of the...
ROI for IRM? Businesses risk $1 trillion losses from data theft
Understanding the return of investment for a new technology deployment in the current economic climate is vital to allowing the business to extend security abilities whilst being confident it makes financial sense to do so. So a study recently released...
Lost laptops plague health care organizations
2009 has not been kind to health care organizations. Already in the first month we have seen 2 incidents of lost/stolen laptops which contain patient information. 30th Jan: Great Ormond Street Hospital apologize over stolen laptop which contained information on...
Man finds US troop data on MP3 player
I am woefully behind on updating the blog this year. Things have been very busy and I have a stack of articles waiting to be edited and published. However this just broke in the news and I thought it was...
More personal data lost in health care
It seems to be happening every week, sensitive information is being lost from health care organizations. This time email is the culprit. BlueCross & BlueShield of Louisiana have had to publicly announce details of an incident where a document was...
Protecting confidential patient data
A recent article in the Teesdale Mercury reports, unfortunately, another instance of patient data falling into the wrongs hands. The press is constantly reporting issues of confidential patient information being hacked, lost, stolen, misused. This highlights a common problem...
Online Data Loss Database launched
Here is one website you do not want your company name to appear on, http://datalossdb.org/. What is it? "DataLossDB, formerly the Attrition.org Data Loss Database Open Source, is an research project aimed at documenting known and reported data loss...
Nearly 1000 laptops go missing at London Heathrow a week
The Daily Telegraph, a UK newspaper, has just reported on some research done by the Ponemon Institute for Dell computers. The research has found that in a year about 800,000 laptops are either lost or stolen at airports all...
Osterman Research Information Leak Prevention Survey
Concerns surrounding the loss of sensitive information increased recently with the release of a short survey by Osterman Research titled Information Leak Prevention, sponsored by FaceTime. They surveyed 109 mid-to large IT organizations in North America regarding their concerns about...
Verizon Business report targets partners as a major source of data loss
A fairly controversial report from Verizon Business released last month looks into the data of over 500 security breach and data compromise engagements between 2004 and 2007. The 2008 Data Breach Investigations Report goes into detail about the source, size...
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