Te-ai gandit vreodata unde ajunge emailul tau când te inregistrezi aiurea? Adica de ce pe toate siteurile ai nevoie de o adresa deemailpentru a deveni membru?
Este cât se poate de simplu … uni oameni fac bani din asta … ilegal!
În temeiul Legii 677/2001 pentru protectia persoanelor cu privire la prelucrarea datelor cu caracter personal și libera circulatie a acestor date vanzarea sau instrainarea datelor cu caracter personal sunt interzise.
Dar multi operatori nu-și protejeaza bazele de date astfel încât datele cu caracter personal pot fi cu usurinta extrase/furate fără consimtamantul lor.
Se întâmplapestetot, nu numai înRomânia! Asadar, data viitoare când va introduceti datele într-un website indiferent cât de serios pare ganditi-va de doua ori … n-ati vrea să ajunga date de vanzare pepiațăneagra, nu-i asa?
Pornind de la datele disponibile la Merchant 911 (Fraud Prevention for Merchants), aveti aici un top al incidentelor de frauda și furt de identitate în 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
În March, theMâine-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.
GEMoneyand 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!