Te-ai gandit vreodata unde ajunge emailul tau cand te inregistrezi aiurea? Adica de ce pe toate siteurile ai nevoie de o adresa de email pentru a deveni membru?
Este cat se poate de simplu … uni oameni fac bani din asta … ilegal!
In temeiul Legii 677/2001 pentru protectia persoanelor cu privire la prelucrarea datelor cu caracter personal si libera circulatie a acestor date vanzarea sau instrainarea datelor cu caracter personal sunt interzise.
Dar multi operatori nu-si protejeaza bazele de date astfel incat datele cu caracter personal pot fi cu usurinta extrase/furate fara consimtamantul lor.
Se intampla peste tot, nu numai in Romania! Asadar, data viitoare cand va introduceti datele intr-un website indiferent cat de serios pare ganditi-va de doua ori … n-ati vrea sa ajunga date de vanzare pe piata neagra, nu-i asa?
Pornind de la datele disponibile la Merchant 911 (Fraud Prevention for Merchants), aveti aici un top al incidentelor de frauda si furt de identitate in 2008:
Bank of New York Mellon and Archive Systems, Inc.
An unencrypted backup tape with 12.5 million customers of the Bank of New York Mellon went missing on Feb. 27, after it was sent to a storage facility. The missing tape contains social security numbers and bank account information on 12.5 million customers. You would think that financial institutions would be more careful.
Hannaford Data Breach
In March, the Maine-based Hannaford Brothers grocery store chain announced that 4.2 million customer card transactions had been compromised by the hackers. This one was more interesting for two reasons. Over 1800 cards were used soon after the breach; we don’t see that often. Even more telling is that Hannaford appears to have been PCI compliant.
Countrywide Home Loans
2.2 million social security numbers and other ‘identity theft’ information stolen by an employee. Financial institutions need to screen employees and be ever-vigilant for signs of internal fraud.
Compass Bank
One million social security numbers stolen when a hard drive is stolen. Another inside job at a financial institution that makes us wonder just how safe out information really is.
GE Money and Iron Mountain
650,000 people were affected by the loss of a backup tape containing customer data of JC Penney and 100 other retailers. At least 150,000 social security numbers were also on the tapes.
Here we have a credit card processor and a data security company loosing data. How bad is that!
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