[Dataloss] New data security breaches come in fours

[security curmudgeon]

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By Jaikumar Vijayan
January 29, 2008
Computerworld

What do Fallon Community Health Plan, Pennsylvania State University, 
OmniAmerican Bank and T. Rowe Price Group Inc. all have in common?

Each of them recently joined the seemingly never-ending parade of 
organizations that have disclosed security breaches resulting in the 
potential compromise of personal data.

Leading the pack in terms of the number of data records known to be 
involved was T. Rowe Price. Two weeks ago, the Baltimore-based investment 
management firm's retirement plan services group began notifying about 
35,000 current and former participants in "several hundred" plans that 
their names and Social Security numbers might have been compromised, a 
company spokesman confirmed today.

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