Posts Tagged ‘TransUnion’

E-mail error sends out students’ Social Security numbers

Sunday, October 4, 2009 22:53 No Comments

Suffolk Community College has agreed to pay a company for the next year to monitor the credit of 300 students whose last names and Social Security numbers were mistakenly listed in an attachment to an e-mail sent to those students last Image via Wikipedia month.  [Donald: Okay, so where does Technology have anything to do [...]

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Hacker breaks into research study data at UNC

Friday, September 25, 2009 11:06 No Comments

Women whose personal information might have been compromised are urged to place a fraud alert on their credit files by contacting one of three credit bureaus – Equifax, www.equifax.com; Experian, www.experian.com; or TransUnion, www.transunion .com . Image via Wikipedia CHAPEL HILL A hacker has infiltrated a computer server housing the personal data of 236,000 women [...]

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Thousand of patients warned about theft of personal information | Bakersfield Now | Investigations

Wednesday, September 23, 2009 14:28 No Comments

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — Thousands of patients at a Kern County health clinic have been warned their personal information could have been stolen. A break-in happened at the Sagebrush Medical Plaza in July, and Kern Medical Center officials have notified 31,000 patients to take precautions against possible identity theft. But, some patients complain the warning came [...]

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