6 responses to “Who’s stealing your personal information?”

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   Tom Del Rosso August 19th, 2010 at 20:43

   What about another important statistic – what kind of organisations are breached? How many are small businesses? Government? Banks?

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   rc primak August 20th, 2010 at 00:08

   @Tom Del Rosso —

   Some of these details were withheld from the public, so we cannot know all the details, but here’s a clue:

   Follow the link within Woody’s Windows Secrets column to the PDF document. It runs 72 Pages, and takes quite awhile to download. Pages 37-41, and especially the graphic on Page 41, should give the breakdown as it was reported. Granted, this report is very light on specifically who was compromised, or where these breaches have occurred, because some of the compromised companies, and especially Government entities, do not want to make public any successful attack, fearing that this might further feed the next attack.

   Sorry I cannot get more specific about these details.

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   sethness August 20th, 2010 at 14:20

   There is a LOT to mistrust in that report.

   For one thing, it says that NO foreign governments were involved in data thefts during the period covered by their data.

   Insert rude coughing here.

   By what feat of delusion and misreporting are they ignoring the P. R. of China’s intrusions into Google’s servers…and roughly 20 other Fortune 500 companies’ servers… discovered in December/January of last year?
   link: http://www.macworld.co.uk/digitallifestyle/news/index.cfm?newsid=28293

   For another thing, the report intentionally leaves out the names of large companies whose data had been stolen. Errrm… WHY? This data is important to investors. Why should a GOVERNMENT agency protect companies from fair disclosure of the companies’ security problems? What about showing a responsibility to… oh, I dunno… VOTERS?

   Like I said: there’s something deeply screwed up and fishy in the data and how it’s presented. The presenters are, imho, as untrustworthy as the Nixon administration.

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   rc primak August 26th, 2010 at 22:36

   I have to side with sethness on this one. Sounds a bit like a Chicken Little “the sky is falling” type of report to me.

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   rc primak August 26th, 2010 at 22:38

   I have to side with sethness on this one. But now my posts in this comments thread are being bounced as “duplicate posts”. The filters around here need updating, Woody.

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   rc primak August 26th, 2010 at 22:39

   Ignore the above comment — the filters gave in and the agree with sethness post is awaiting moderation.