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16. August 2008 by admin.
At Countrywide, One Overlooked PC Led to Loss of 2M Records: If your primary defense against portable storage devices is to seal up the USB ports on your users’ computers, you’d better be pretty darn good with a glue gun. That’s the message that’s emerged from court documents surrounding the recently revealed security breach at Countrywide Home Loans, where an employee siphoned off about 20,000 customer records a week for more than two years and sold them to a third party. [Date: 13 August 2008, Source: http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=161548&f_src=darkreading_section_296]
See also: http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=160767
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