by Carrie Kerskie | Oct 9, 2013 | Corporate Breaches, Data Breaches
The announcement of the data breach at Adobe as well as the largest data mining companies, including Lexis Nexis, should have every business running scared. These were large organizations with departments dedicated to data security yet they still were unable to...
by Carrie Kerskie | Oct 9, 2013 | Corporate Breaches, Cyber Threats, Data Breaches
Last week Adobe announced they had suffered a data security breach potentially exposing the log in credentials and payment details of millions of it’s users but the hackers didn’t stop there. They also stole top secret source code for an...
by Carrie Kerskie | Aug 28, 2013 | Data Breaches, Medical Breaches
Four computers were stolen from the administrative office of Advocate Medical Group, the largest health system in Illinois. Unfortunately, for 4.03 million patients, their sensitive information on the computers was unencrypted leaving them vulnerable to identity...
by Carrie Kerskie | Aug 28, 2013 | Data Breaches, Privacy Tips & Tricks
Recently I came across an article by Charles Duhigg where Target notified the father of a teenage girl that she was with child. Target was mailing pregnancy coupons addressed to his teenage daughter. He did what any father of a teenage daughter would do – he...
by Carrie Kerskie | Aug 13, 2013 | Credit Identity Theft, Data Breaches, Devices, Identity Theft
Remember the good old days when a pick-pocket had to actually steal your wallet? You know, the ones that bump into you don’t even realize they took it until you get home and check your pockets? Well times they are a changing. With today’s technology...
by Carrie Kerskie | Sep 25, 2012 | Data Breaches, Privacy Tips & Tricks
A friend of mine, a physician, recently told me about his experience with an electronic medical records company. My friend, we shall call him Doc, realized he was paying for the company to maintain archived records on patients no longer in his practice. He call the...
