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It’s Time to Upgrade Your Thinking

It’s Time to Upgrade Your Thinking. 2012 Q1 & Q2 Cyber Breaches. 213 breaches with over 8.5 million records exposed, including: 1.8 million customer records including SS# and DOB (New York State Electric & Gas) 700,000 health & Medicaid records (CA In-Home Supportive Services)

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It’s Time to Upgrade Your Thinking

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  1. It’s Time to Upgrade Your Thinking

  2. 2012 Q1 & Q2 Cyber Breaches 213 breaches with over 8.5 million records exposed, including: • 1.8 million customer records including SS# and DOB (New York State Electric & Gas) • 700,000 health & Medicaid records (CA In-Home Supportive Services) • 800,000 health & Medicaid records (Utah Dept. of Technology Services) • 800,000 records including SS #s (CA Dept. of Child Support Services) • 654,000 files of personal information (University of Nebraska) Source: Identity Theft Resource Center, 7/2/12

  3. October 2012 Cyber Breach South Carolina Department of Revenue’s database with: • 3.6 million Social Security numbers • 387,000 credit & debit card numbers • Potentially affects anyone who filed a tax return in South Carolina since 1998 • None of the SS# and only 16,000 credit/debit card numbers were encrypted • Stolen by a foreign hacker • Being investigated by the U. S. Secret Service Source: USA Today, 10/26/12

  4. At least 141 million records have been stolen from government and military networks since 2005 44% of Total U.S. Population Source: The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse Chronology of Data Breaches

  5. Email is Not Private South Carolina Supreme Court (10/10/12) • Wife asked her daughter-in-law to hack into her husband’s email account after she found a card for flowers in his car • The court determined that there was no invasion of privacy or violation of the Stored Communications Act (SCA) • Online email services do not fit the definition of “electronic storage” as spelled out by the SCA, and therefore are not protected Source: Published Court Decision, M. Lee Jennings v. Gail M. Jennings, et al

  6. Are We Protecting Our Constituents’ Data?

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