American International Group has agreed to pay over $300m to settle dispute with states over death benefits payments which remained unclaimed. California State Controller's office spokesman Jacob Roper said that the underwriter will ...
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MetLife has agreed to pay $500m in a multistate settlement with Florida insurance investigators in connection with holding death benefits from life insurance policies issued decades ago. The regulators accused the US insurer over non ...
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IDG News Service-Western Connecticut State University said Thursday that a vulnerability in its computer system present for more than three years may have exposed the data of 233,880 students and other people affiliated with the ...
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South Carolina's governor faulted an outdated Internal Revenue Service standard as a contributing factor to a massive data breach that exposed Social Security numbers of 3.8 million taxpayers plus credit card and bank account data. ...
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Held in Shenzhen city from 16th to 21st, November every year, China Hi-Tech Fair(CHTF for short) is the largest and most influential scientific exhibition at present in China, which is approved by the State Council of P.R.C and hosted ...
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NASA is scrambling to implement full disk encryption on agency laptops after one containing unencrypted personal information on a"large"number of people was recently stolen. Agency employees were told of the October 31 theft of the ...
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Computerworld-In the biggest data compromise of the year,Social Security Numbers(SSN)belonging to about 3.6 million residents in South Carolina have been exposed in an intrusion into a computer at the state's Department of Revenue. ...
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A hacking group that calls itself Team GhostShell this week claimed credit for breaking into servers at 100 major universities from around the world,including Harvard,Stanford,the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan. ...
A lot of businesses are given huge amount of private and important information.These companies always keep a close record of the business accounts,employee records,customer information and some other important information too.So it is ...
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The U.S.Federal Trade Commission has reached proposed settlements with a software vendor and seven rent-to-own stores after the agency accused them of installing spyware on rented computers that captured screenshots of personal ...
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The unique identifiers of 1 million Apple iOS devices that hackers leaked last week were stolen from the servers of a Florida-based digital publishing firm called Bluetoad. Bluetoad develops digital distribution technologies. Its ...
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In the first half year of 2012, the private investment in fixed assets reached 9,365.7 billion yuan, a year-on-year nominal increase of 25.8 percent, (the real growth rate deducting price factors was 23.3 percent), decreased 0.9 percentage ...
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From January to May 2012, the investment in fixed assets (excluding rural households) reached 10,892.4 billion yuan, up by 20.1 percent year-on-year, dropped 0.1 percentage points over the first four months. In May, the investment in fixed ...
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In the first four months of 2012, the private investment in fixed assets reached 4,686.9 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 27.3 percent,1.6 percentage points lower than that in the first three months, and 7.1 percentage points higher ...
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In the first four months of 2012, the investment in fixed assets (excluding rural households) reached 7,559.2 billion yuan, up by 20.2 percent year-on-year, dropped 0.7 percentage points over the first three months. In April, the investment ...
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