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• Banking customers' personal details sold on eBay

A computer containing banking security details of more than 1 million people has been sold on eBay, bank officials said Tuesday - the latest in a series of losses of personal data in the U.K.

• Student Files Are Exposed on Web Site

The Princeton Review, the test-preparatory firm, accidentally published the personal data and standardized test scores of tens of thousands of Florida students on its Web site, where they were available for seven weeks.

• Justice Breyer Is Among Victims in Data Breach Caused by File Sharing

An employee of a McLean investment firm decided to trade some music, or maybe a movie, with like-minded users of the online file-sharing network LimeWire while using a company computer. In doing so, he inadvertently opened the private files of his firm.

• No Fail-Safe Identity Protection

Plenty of products promise to help consumers avoid identity theft, but none of them is foolproof.

• The impostor in the ER

Could a stranger get care in your name? The scary new crime that threatens your health.

• Keeping data safe

Handhelds pose security challenges for businesses

• Identity Theft Gets Personal

It had been a pleasant Saturday afternoon until I got the dreadful cellphone call. The woman on the other end said she was from Bank of America. I immediately thought she was going to offer me another credit card. I told her I was busy.

• Theft of personal data more than triples this year

Thieves are systematically pilfering sensitive personal data from companies, government agencies, colleges and hospitals like never before

• KU announces findings of investigation into inappropriate disposal of documents

The University of Kansas has completed its investigation into the inappropriate disposal of documents containing personal information from the Department of Mathematics and has been contacting affected parties by phone or mail, officials said today.

• KU launches investigation into release of personal data

The University of Kansas today launched an investigation into the unauthorized release of personal information and records to area media and is pledging to take all necessary steps to protect the private information of students, faculty and staff.

• FERPA Allows More Than You May Realize

Recent campus incidents have highlighted the importance of effective communication among administrators, faculty, and staff, as well as between campus representatives and students, families, and surrounding communities.

• University-owned laptop with student data stolen

Elizabeth Beaumont and the political science department recently got a taste of technology's paradox: Convenience sometimes complicates matters.

• HIPAA audit: The 42 questions HHS might ask

They cover everything from security to employee status to Internet use

• Professor loses student data

A flash drive holding information on about 8,000 current and former Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi students was lost by a mathematics professor while on vacation in Madagascar, university officials said Friday.