97,000 at the university of florida

failure of security systems at the University of Florida, where the records of 97,000 students and employees were compromised. The university immediately took the systems offline upon learning of the break-in, but have yet to figure out what data -- if any -- was actually stolen, or how the hacker obtained access to the system.
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The governmental expense and reimbursement site GovTrip.com was recently hacked. The hacked site began redirecting visitors to a site containing malicious code. Used by several government agencies to track expenses for employees, GovTrip is operated by military contractor Northrop Grumman, which also makes Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles.

... 100 millions a month at Heartland Payment Systems Inc ...

Card Data Breached, Firm Says
Heartland Payment Systems Inc. said Tuesday that cyber criminals compromised its computer network, gaining access to customer information associated with the 100 million card transactions it handles each month.

4 million customers at the Bank of New York

Lost Bank Tapes May Expose Millions
AP
Posted: 2008-05-22 10:00:42
Filed Under: Banking, Identity Theft, Personal Finance
HARTFORD, Conn. (May 21) - Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal asked the Bank of New York Mellon Wednesday to explain how it lost computer tapes containing the information of more than 4 million customers.

128,000 WellPoint Inc. customers

By TOM MURPHY,AP Posted: 2008-04-08 20:10:58
Filed Under: Identity Theft
INDIANAPOLIS (April 8) - Personal information that may have included Social Security numbers and pharmacy or medical data for about 128,000 WellPoint Inc. customers in several states was exposed online over the past year, the health insurer said Tuesday.

German hackers threaten to publish Merkel's fingerprints

German hackers threaten to publish Merkel's fingerprints

... soon we may have ...
... instead than the bank robbers ...
... with the masks of the presidents ...
... the ones WITH THE FINGERPRINTS OF THE PRESIDENTS ...

Advance Auto says data on 56,000 customers exposed

Advance Auto says data on 56,000 customers exposed

... ftp credentials for sale ...

Security company detects sale of FTP credentials
Front page / Science 02/27/2008

An Israel-based computer security company, Finjan, discovered this week a serious leak. It turned out that a sort of eBay for stolen data sold more than 8,700 FTP login names and passwords.