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• Google seeks to reassure business users after attacks

  Google moved quickly on Tuesday to reassure its enterprise customers that their data is in safe hands, following its disclosure that it was targeted in December by a "highly sophisticated" cyberattack from China.

• Google blames 'human error' for data leak

  Google is apologizing after it mistakenly e-mailed potentially sensitive business data last week to other users of its business listings service.

• HSBC exposed sensitive bankruptcy data

  HSBC Bank says a bug in its imaging software inadvertently exposed sensitive data about some of its customers going through bankruptcy proceedings.

• Sept. 11 pager messages published online

  The pager message is from a woman near a pay phone near 38th Street in New York City on Sept. 11, 2001. The woman says her children were evacuated, but she's trying to find them. She tells her husband she loves him.

• T-Mobile UK employees sold customer data

  Workers at T-Mobile UK have been selling customer data to brokers who work for the competition, T-Mobile and the U.K.'s Information Commissioner's Office said on Tuesday.

• Guardian jobs site falls victim to 'sophisticated' hack

  A major U.K. newspaper has notified 500,000 people that details they posted to the newspaper's employment site may be in the hands of hackers.

• Data leaks more common than you think

  Take a look at the number of reported data leaks in the US and Australia and you could be forgiven for thinking that we’re a pretty secure lot. But the level of Australian incidents is more likely to be on par with the US – it’s just that you don’t hear about it.

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  Oops, e-mail security vendor McAfee spills 1400 private names

  In a story just dripping with irony, e-mail security vendor McAfee has accidentally sent the contact details of more than 1400 conference attendees in a spreadsheet attached to a thank you message.

• T-Mobile confirms stolen data is genuine

  T-Mobile confirmed on Tuesday that internal information posted on the Internet by hackers was stolen from its systems, but said it does not appear customer data is in jeopardy.

• Hard drive missing from US National Archives

  A hard drive containing personal information of White House staff and visitors during former U.S. President Bill Clinton's administration is missing from the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, the agency said.

• Data leaks a people problem, not a technical one

  Data-leak prevention that lets organizations monitor for unauthorized transmission of sensitive content is a powerful technology sometimes put to surprising uses. And those with DLP experience say the biggest challenges lie with people and their online habits rather than technology.