NY Bank ‘loses’ 4.5M unencrypted customer records by ZDNet‘s Michael Krigsman — In yet another unbelievable story of data irresponsibility, the Bank of New York (BNY) Mellon lost two sets of unencrypted backup tapes containing private data belonging to 4.5 million individuals. Third-party vendors misplaced the tapes during transport to off-site locations. This is ridiculous….
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A government made for business
From the AP, Breach exposes 4.2 million credit, debit cards I thought the government existed to protect us? “Visa and MasterCard have stipulated in their contracts with retailers that they will not divulge who the source is when a data breach occurs,” Spitzer said. “We’ve been engaged in a dialogue for a couple years now…