LexisNexis worse than feared
p2pnet.net News:- Recent news that hackers had penetrated Reed Elsevier’s LexisNexis database and stolen confidential information on 32,000 US customers rocked the security industry, already suffering from other major breaches.
But the LexisNexis thefts may be far worse than feared.
More thefts could be uncovered, said the company at the time and now, Publisher and data broker Reed Elsevier Group PLC said Tuesday that up to 10 times as many people as originally thought may have had their profiles stolen from one of its U.S. databases, says the Associated Press.
It now says that figure is closer to 310,000 people.
Last month ChoicePoint revealed that the personal information of 145,000 Americans, “may have been compromised in a breach in which people posing as small business customers gained access to its database,” says AP, adding:
“In the ChoicePoint situation, at least 750 people were defrauded, authorities say. The incident in the United States fueled consumer advocates’ calls for federal oversight of the loosely regulated data-brokering business, and Capitol Hill hearings are due to be scheduled on the issue.”
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See:-
could be uncovered – LexisNexis personal data hacked, p2pnet, March 10, 2005
Associated Press – LexisNexis breach may be worse than thought, April 12, 2005
April 13th, 2005 at 5:16 am
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These incidents, of course, in no way alter the requirements that your governments have of knowing absolutely everything there is to know about you. Even things you yourself don’t know. Especially things you don’t know about yourself.
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Remember, only criminals have anything to hide.
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