Book Companion:

Jeanette Woodward

Privacy, Identity Theft and Commercial Data Brokers

Humans main cause of financial security breaches
Jennifer Hill, Reuters, Sepember 18, 2007
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articleinvesting.aspx?type=personalFinanceNews&storyID=2007-09-18T063304Z_01_NOA823485_RTRUKOC_0_BRITAIN-SECURITY.xml
People are the cause of most breaches in banking security, a report shows. Employees and customers are the key sources of security breaches, according to a survey of financial services companies by business advisory firm Deloitte. . .

Firm Sued Over Breach of Data on 8.5M People
Jaikumar Vijayan, Computerworld, August 27, 2007
http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=cybercrime_and_hacking&articleId=301378&taxonomyId=82&intsrc=kc_top
A California law firm has filed a class-action suit charging Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) and one of its subsidiaries with negligence in connection with a data breach that exposed personal data of as many as 8.5 million people. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in California, also accuses the Jacksonville, Fla.-based transaction processor and outsourcer and its Certegy Check Services subsidiary of invasion of privacy and breach of implied contract. . .

Get paranoid: Information brokers are bungling your data:
Reason No. 4: Shoddy report vendors put the "credit" in discrediting your reputation
By Dan Tynan, Info World, August 27, 2007
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/08/27/35FEparanoia-4_1.html Anybody who requests a background or credit check on you -- or provides them to others -- has a ton of sensitive information about you that (a) may not be accurate and (b) is highly vulnerable to spills. That includes data brokers, credit bureaus, banks, insurance companies, cell carriers, and your employer. . .