http://www.protondatasecurity.com Data Destruction Products and Services Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:38:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A hard drive with seven years of personal and medical information on about 1.5 million Health Net customers, including 446,000 in Connecticut, was lost six months ago and was first reported Wednesday, state and company officials said. The insurance company informed the state attorney general's office and the Department of Insurance ... http://www.protondatasecurity.com/breachnews/15-million-medical-files-at-risk-in-health-net-data-breach/ The Corps of Engineers is investigating the recent loss of an external hard drive that could pose identify theft problems for as many as 60,000 soldiers and Army civilians. Maj. Mark Young, a Corps of Engineers spokesman in Washington, said the security breach occurred in the command’s Southwestern Division, which is ... http://www.protondatasecurity.com/breachnews/data-breach-could-affect-60000-gis-civilians/ Federal lawmakers are again considering legislation that would create nationwide rules for notifying potential victims of identify theft when organizations improperly expose their sensitive information. The Senate Judiciary Committee approved two bills this month that would impose data breach notification requirements on businesses, and a bill with notification requirements is making ... http://www.protondatasecurity.com/breachnews/data-breach-law/ The inspector general of the National Archives and Records Administration is investigating a potential data breach affecting tens of millions of records about U.S. military veterans, Wired.com has learned. The issue involves a defective hard drive the agency sent back to its vendor for repair and recycling without first destroying ... http://www.protondatasecurity.com/breachnews/us-government-suffers-largest-release-of-personally-identifiable-information-ever/ Several military units failed to adequately sanitize hard drives of data, including Social Security numbers of military personnel, before shipping the IT equipment to other organizations, in violation of Department of Defense rules, the DoD inspector general said in a report. The IG took to task individual units as well as ... http://www.protondatasecurity.com/breachnews/dod-fail-sanitize/ In a survey of more than 100 companies, Deloitte found that most organizations only dedicate 1 to 3 percent of their IT budgets to security and that 43 percent of these organizations lack a Chief Information Security Officer. A new report on the state of security within health care shows that ... http://www.protondatasecurity.com/breachnews/digital-health-records/ Verizon Business 2009 Data Breach Study Finds Significant Rise in Targeted Attacks, Organized Crime Involvement BASKING RIDGE, N.J. - More electronic records were breached in 2008 than the previous four years combined, fueled by a targeting of the financial services industry and a strong involvement of organized crime, according to the ... http://www.protondatasecurity.com/breachnews/verizon-2009-data-breach-study/ By Robert McMillan IDG News Service A team of journalists investigating the global electronic waste business has unearthed a security problem too. In a Ghana market, they bought a computer hard drive containing sensitive documents belonging to a major government contractor. The drive had belonged to a Fairfax, Virginia, employee who still works ... http://www.protondatasecurity.com/breachnews/confidential-us-data-found-in-market/ By W.J. Hennigan Retail giant TJX Cos. agreed Tuesday to pay $9.75 million to 41 states including California to settle an investigation of a massive data breach that jeopardized millions of payment card numbers. TJX, the parent company of the T.J. Maxx and Marshalls discount clothing chains, will pay $7.25 million in ... http://www.protondatasecurity.com/breachnews/tjx-data-breach-975m/ By Ben Bain Nara suffers data breach, investigation under way into missing hard drive with personal information. An external hard drive with personally identifiable information from the Executive Office of the President during the Clinton administration is missing from a National Archives and Records Administration facility near Washington, government officials have said. The ... http://www.protondatasecurity.com/breachnews/nara-hard-drive-missing/