Since Conner is off-track for 4 weeks we had his friends over for a Thanksgiving Feast. Each friend brought one of their favorite foods to share. Boy, was it a feast. Talk about nutritious! There was: little smokies, tater tots, shrimp cocktail, ravioli, grapes, carrots, cucumbers, fruit salad, rolls, pumpkin pie and dino-nuggets. After lunch they made the dessert. They broke into teams and helped each other make cupcakes. You should have seen them crack the eggs. Lets just say when the cupcakes were done and you took a bite- they went CRUNCH! Considering their age, they did a pretty good job of reading instructions and cooking cupcakes. We'll have to do this again soon!

Where in the world is your information?

I came across a blog by Dave Jevans which had the following:

Personal Data of 1 Million UK Bank Customers Found on Computer For Sale on eBay

Yet another data disclosure incident from the UK to haunt us all.

A server was sold on eBay, and the buyer was quite surprised to find that it included personal data on a million bank customers who bank with Royal Bank of Scotland, NatWest and American
Express.

The server belonged to Graphic Data, who stores archives of financial information for banks. An employee somehow got the server and sold it on eBay for less than $100, and didn’t bother to erase the personal financial data of the bank’s customers.

True, this was in the UK, but the point is still the same, Where in the world is your information? Since investigating identity theft, I have come across a way in which I feel completely secure with my identity. Click here to learn more.

Data Breach

We all hear about identity theft. Yet many people think it will never happen to them. Here is an article I came across.

A Bank of New York Mellon data breach first reported in May as affecting 500,000 account holders in Connecticut and 4.5 million across the country may have affected nearly three times that many.

The bank told Reuters news service Thursday that the breach has exposed up to 12.5 million people to identity theft. It was unclear how many of the newly identified accounts were with Bridgeport-based People's United Bank, the holders of hundreds of thousands of affected accounts. People's United has 10 locations in southeastern Connecticut and more than 150 statewide.

Gov. M. Jodi Rell, in a statement, said the updated figures came in response to subpoenas she ordered the state Department of Consumer Protection to issue in May. The data loss involved Social Security numbers, names, addresses and other sensitive information.

”It is simply outrageous that this mountain of information was not better protected, and it is equally outrageous that we are hearing about (millions of additional accounts subject to possible identity theft) six months after the fact,” Rell said in her statement. “We fear a substantial number of Connecticut residents are among the latest group.”

--Lee Howard, TheDay.com

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