Word: leakings
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...shambles," says Beth Givens, director of the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse (PRC), which has posted a list of more than 150 serious data compromises so far in 2006. The breaches include lost bank backup tapes, hacking losses, stolen laptops, and releases of private information like AOL's. "This latest leak gives us a window into the sensitivity of search strings," Givens says. "We all use search engines and don't think about what someone could learn about the most sensitive aspects of our lives by studying what we search for over time...
...issues with Prudhoe's pipes are not new: a leak in March prompted the US Department of Transportation to order BP to improve its corrosion inspections. Nonetheless, Alaska's oilfields - far from war in the Middle East and hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico - seemed slightly sheltered from turmoil. No more. "It's turning out to be bigger than people thought," says Flynn. "It reminds us how thin the line is between supply and demand...
...complaint said that former Goldman Sachs analysts Plotkin and Pajcin hired Shpigelman to leak information about six mergers or acquisitions that Merrill Lynch was overseeing, including those between Proctor & Gamble and Gillette, Duke Energy and Cinergy, and Reebok and Adidas. According to the complaint, Shpigelman received cash and pledges for a share in profits...
Ultimately, though, he told the U.S. District Judge that he acted out of his own free will. Other than the Merrill Lynch plan, Plotkin and Pajcin are accused of hiring two Wisconsin printing plant employees to leak them information from a Wall Street column in BusinessWeek a day before the magazine’s publication...
Could new information emerge on the leak? If the suit moves forward, the discovery process could reveal previously unseen-- and potentially embarrassing--White House memos...