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In The News

• Hackers Hunting On Smartphones
• Security, is there an app for that? EU’s cyber-security agency highlights risks & opportunities of smartphones
• Flash Drives: The quickest way to lose confidential data?
• Health Net Report Data Breach Affecting 1.9M Current, Past Enrollees
• Kwai Chung Hospital reports loss of personal USB flash drive
• The Worlds Largest Stem Cell Bank Suffers Theft of 300,000 Client Records
• Zurich Insurance fined £2.3m over customers’ data loss.

Did You Know

 Identity theft is the top consumer complaint in the USA according to the Federal Trade Commission.

 US consumers reported fraud loss totalling more than $1.1 billion in 2006.

 Credit card fraud (25%) was the most common form of reported identity theft in the US in 2006.

 More than 100 000 people are affected by identity theft each year in the UK

 According to Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, more than 350 data loss incidents involving more than 140 million records have occurred since February 2005

 Organisations are obliged by law to take take adequate steps to ensure the proper disposal of data