Archive for Data Breach Incident

Employers who mandate identity monitoring lower their risks

Employers should make it a mandatory exercise that all employees regularly monitor their identity.  Data breaches of the company’s own employees’ personally identifiable information (PII) can be detected if an employee discovers inappropriate activity from their review of credit reports and other free consumer aggregators’ data bases.  If they follow a strategy of reviewing their [...]

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Copy machines hold sensitive information on their hard drives!

This is a new one for me.  I never thought about copy machines having hard drive storage, but it makes sense now that they are networked with computers.  But the “images” stay on the hard drives just like files do on our computers.  If you ever have it fixed, all the sensitive information is right [...]

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