[Dataloss] Financial Firms Losing Data

[B.K. DeLong]

Nice job, Chris. I thought that I've seen more re: stolen laptops than
digital break-ins.

On 9/26/06, lyger <lyger at attrition.org> wrote:
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> (Since I know Chris wouldn't do this himself...) ;)
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> http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=104574&f_src=darkreading_section_296
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> SEPTEMBER 26, 2006
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> Which would be more likely to suffer data theft, a university or financial
> institution?
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> If you've been reading the news lately, you probably said "university."
> But in New York, it's a different story. Nearly half of the 64 data breach
> incidents reported in the state between March and May of this year were by
> financial institutions and insurance companies -- not educational
> institutions, according to a researcher who's gathering the data. Only
> three of the 64 incidents were reported by schools, he says.
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> Interestingly, most of the financial institutions' breaches weren't driven
> by hackers, says Chris Walsh, an information security architect who is
> independently researching breach trends using data from New York. "About
> two thirds of them reported a lost computer, and that's not counting lost
> tapes."
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