[Dataloss] Title Agency Warns Customers About Security Breach (fwd)

[security curmudgeon]

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By Kevin Tripp
KTAR
April 5th, 2007

There's a new warning about identity theft. Security Title Agency in 
Phoenix is warning customers about a security breach.

About five weeks ago their Web site was altered by computer hackers.

Customer information is stored on the same server as the Web site.

The company believes that information is safe. They say they hackers 
"defaced" their website and likened them to "graffiti artists."

"Even if a hacker hacks into a website as a joke, they're not specifically 
targeting your personal information. That still doesn't mean they didn't 
get and the company can't honestly say they didn't get your personal 
information," says Bob Hartle from ID Theft Services.

Hackers have the ability to gather information off a business' Web site. 
So if somebody hacks into Security's Web site, they have the ability to 
take off the website whatever they want.

Security Title Agency admits it's not "100 percent sure" customer 
information wasn't obtained. But the company is providing free credit 
monitoring for its customers.

"What the business community is not doing is making the Internet safe. And 
apparently they can't do it because you're hearing about all these 
security breaches," says Hartle.