International Business News - Breaches http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif The reliance of restaurant chains and retail stores on outside companies to handle credit-card processing and other information-technology functions is partly to blame for a rash of consumer data breaches over the last few years, according to data sleuths at Verizon Communications Inc. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081002/outsourcing-aids-many-data-thefts-verizon-says.htm Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:42:35 EDT Tax forms were sent out to thousands of people in Wisconsin with their Social Security numbers on the mailing labels. A vendor hired by the state of Georgia lost a computer disk with the names and Social Security numbers of 2.9 million people. A disk with similar information disappeared in Rhode Island. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080428/states-faulted-over-privacy-breaches-tighter-security-urged.htm Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:25:58 EDT