Who you gonna trust w/ your personal data?

LexisNexis data theft grows tenfold
In one of the biggest computer-security breaches ever, personal data on 310,000 people may have been stolen from data broker LexisNexis - nearly 10 times the number first disclosed, the company said yesterday.

Time Warner personnel data tapes 'lost'
New York, NY, May. 3 (UPI) -- A Boston data storage company has apparently lost computer tapes with personal data on some 600,000 current and former Time Warner employees.

The Great Data Heist
In February data aggregator ChoicePoint acknowledged that identity thieves had stolen vital information on 145,000 people. Less than two weeks later Bank of America admitted it had lost backup tapes that held the account information of 1.2 million credit card holders. In March shoe retailer DSW said its stores' credit card data had been breached; the U.S. Secret Service estimated that at least 100,000 valuable numbers had been accessed. More than a month later DSW released the real number: 1.4 million. Reed Elsevier's LexisNexis, a ChoicePoint rival, followed suit, revealing first that unauthorized users had compromised 32,000 identities, then upping the number to 310,000.

Shoppers' data stolen from DSW shoe stores
DSW Shoe Warehouse customers got something they didn't bargain for: their credit information stolen. The theft impacted every South Florida location, and the Dadeland store was the hardest-hit.

Ameritrade Shows Peril of Backup Tapes
Brokerage company Ameritrade has begun warning about 200,000 current and former customers about the loss of a backup tape containing their personal information, officials said this week.

Bank's Tape Loss Puts Spotlight on Backup Practices
The Washington Post reported that the lost data tapes included personal information on 1.2 million federal employees, among them Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.).