The
information was available for more than an hour to anyone that visited the
forum before it was taken down.
??? A security breach at Pfizer on September 4, 2007, may have publicly exposed
the names, social security numbers, addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers,
credit card information, signatures, bank account numbers, and other personal
information of 34,000 employees. The breach occurred in 2006 but was not
noticed by the company until July 10, 2007.
??? On August 23, 2007, the names, addresses, and phone numbers of around
1.6 million job seekers were stolen from Monster.com.
??? On February 8, 2007, Consumeraffairs.com reported that identity theft had
topped the Federal Trade Commission??™s (FTC??™s) complaint list for the seventh
year in a row. Identity theft complaints accounted for 36 percent of the 674,354
complaints that were received by the FTC in the period between January 1,
2006, and December 31, 2006.
??? Privacyrights.org has reported that the total number of records containing
sensitive information that have been involved in security breaches from January
10, 2005, to September 28, 2007 numbers 166,844,653.
??? Clay High School in Oregon, Ohio, reported on January 25, 2007, that staff and
student information had been obtained through a security breach by a former
student.
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