1.3 Million Student Loan Borrowers Data Lost: The New Reality Show


	1.3 Million Student Loan Borrowers Data Lost: The New Reality Show

agent99

6-2-2006 2:19 AM

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Sad but true...this latest episode continues to magnify the ugly secret Congress continues to ignore....that your most private data is hopelessly exposed to identity theft...unless you....

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      </p><div style="clear: both;"></div><div class="audblog"><a href="http://www.audioblogger.com/media/57807/365907.mp3" class="audLink"><img src="http://www.audioblogger.com/media/images/audioblogger.gif" class="audImg" alt="1.3-Million-Student-Loan-Borrowers-Data-Lost-audio post - click to play" border="0"></a></div><br>"Lost" is a popular reality TV show which now may very<br>well become re-branded to include identity theft as the<br>number of security breaches continues to expose careless<br>data handling by companies entrusted with sensitive<br><div>consumer information.</div><br>In this latest episode of "Lost: The Missing Consumer Data",<br>we expose the misdeeds of Hummingbird, a Texas based<br>software company contracted by the Texas Guaranteed<br>Student Loan company to prepare a document management<br><div>system.</div><br><div><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Apparently an employee of Hummingbird "lost"<br>hardware </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">containing unencrypted names and<br>social security numbers </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">(ssn) of 1,300,000<br>borrowers as of May 24th.</span></div><br>What's appalling about this latest "lost" data episode opening<br>up 1.3 million consumers to identity theft and credit fraud is<br><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">the data was originally encrypted</span> prior to transferral</div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A7543F53-D5A7-40CE-8719-A0E8DD30AC6C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>