As part of the new proposal, the Personal Data Notification and Protection Act would purportedly "help bring peace of mind to the tens of millions of Americans whose personal and financial information has been compromised in a data breach".
The number one criterion is whether or not personally identifiable information (PII) has been compromised in a data breach, but there are other ways that we expose (and overexpose) ourselves.
But there are steps they can, and should, take to protect themselves, if they are notified that their Social Security number has been compromised in a data breach, Mr. Pascual said.
Earlier today patrons of Wine Library received an email informing them that the credit card information they had used to sign up to the WineLibrary.com site may have been compromised in a data breach.
WASHINGTON, June 21 — The Department of Veterans Affairs said Wednesday that it would provide a year of free credit monitoring for people whose personal information might have been compromised in the recent theft of department computer data.
Personal data has been compromised in ways that we don't even fully understand yet.
If other developers broke the law we have a right to know, and the users whose data may have been compromised in this way should be informed.
Customer data doesn't appear to have been compromised in the attack, spokesman Marco Soto said.
Javelin's 2013 Data Breach Fraud Impact Report finds that data breaches are increasingly correlated with fraud; if your personal information is compromised in a data breach, you are much more likely to end up being a victim, said Al Pascual, a senior security, risk and fraud analyst at Javelin.
Timehop is admitting that additional personal information was compromised in a data breach on July 4. The company first acknowledged the breach on Sunday, saying that users' names, email addresses and phone numbers had been compromised.
