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Banks, hospitals, universities, the post office, the grocery…and now, the underwear store

Hanesbrands Inc. (umbrella firm for various brands including L’eggs, Playtex, Wonderbra, Champion, and Maidenform) stated on Wednesday – June 29, 2015; that a customer order database was breached by a hacker in June 2015, compromising information for about 900,000 online and telephone customers. Yours truly was a customer at that time, and was a part of the folks notified by Hanes.

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Personally Identifiable Information in the age of Instagram

martinak15 / Foter / CC BY     In April 2010, the National Institute of Standards and Technology published a set of recommendations as a guide for protecting the confidentiality of Personally Identifiable Information [PDF]. Co-authored...