Tuesday, April 05, 2011

After Breach, Companies Warn of E-Mail Fraud

And the governement want your data  as  a patient in the amorphous cloud....in an electronic medical record???
EMR bad for doctors and patients....
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The breach exposed the e-mail addresses of customers of some of the nation’s largest companies, including JPMorgan Chase, Citibank, Target and Walgreens. In some cases customer names were also stolen.
While the number of people affected is unknown, security experts say that based on the businesses involved, the breach may be among the largest ever. And it could lead to a surge in phishing attacks — e-mails that purport to be from a legitimate business but are intended to steal information like account numbers or passwords.
“It is clearly a massive hemorrhage,” said Michael Kleeman, a network security expert at the University of California, San Diego.
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