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NEW YORK - Stealing Social Security numbers and other sensitive data isn't always a cloak-and-dagger, ultra-sophisticated operation: It's often a low-tech job made easier by carelessness and flimsy safeguards.
Plenty of inexpensive measures can protect data from the large- scale theft that big banks, data merchants and other companies have recently disclosed.See the full content of this document
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Businesses Could Easily Protect Personal Data
But "security and privacy, for a lot of large organizations, are an afterthought, not a priority," said Evan Hendricks, who publishes the newsletter Privacy Times.
Consider the latest headache for some large banks:More than 100,000 customers of Wachovia Corp. and Bank of America Corp. have been notified that their financial recor...See the full content of this document
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