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RAIN (Records/Archives In the News) is a daily compilation of news stories from around the world. MASTERCARD Breach Exposes Data On Millions Of Cards InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA ... Earlier this year, Bank of America alerted 1.2 million credit-card customers about a loss of tapes, and HSBC North America warned 180,000 customers that their ... <http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=164900904> CHAIN settles charges by FTC Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA ... In February, Bank of America Corp. reported that it had lost tapes containing the personal financial information of the accounts of about 1.2 million federal ... <http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2005/06/17/chain_settles_charges_by_ftc> DATA theft threat reported Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription) - MN,USA ... Those tapes were not encrypted, and they have not yet been found. ... institutions such as Bank of America and Wachovia to the media giant Time Warner, and more ... <http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/5463662.html> DIGITAL evidence proves valuable for court cases Providence Business News - Providence,RI,USA ... subpoena cheating spouses' computers, say, to seek hidden financial records or incriminating e-mails -- even if they were savvy enough to delete them from ... <http://www.pbn.com/contentmgr/showdetails.php/id/115387> ARE we recording lots of history or making an e-mess? Orlando Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USA ... Some archivists worry that the ease with which we correspond with each other and document our lives will lead to a glut of information. ... <http://www.orlandosentinel.com/features/lifestyle/orl-archive18061805jun18,0,3347064.story?coll=orl-home-lifestyle> AUTHOR of pictorial history book uncovers surprises Princeton Packet - Princeton,NJ,USA ... In conducting his research and selecting the scores of archival images that appear in the book, he continued, he had the help of the historical society, as ... <http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=14712450&BRD=1091&PAG=461&dept_id=425695&rfi=6> Billings Gazette, Fri, 17 Jun 2005 11:34 PM PDT Glasses, books shed light on early MSU-Billings http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/06/18/build/local/65-findings-msub.inc A corroded pair of octagonal spectacles, a 1930s-era fountain pen and more than two dozen books could be the newest link between Montana State University-Billings and one of its first professors. ACCORD reached on items for JFK Library Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA ... The National Archives and Records Administration reached a settlement with the estate of Robert L. White for the return of thousands of pages of documents and ... <http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/06/18/accord_reached_on_items_for_jfk_library> HISTORY viewed through the looking glass Delmarva Daily Times - MD,USA ... Most of the glass negatives are 8 inches by 10 inches, Jones said, and in about the 1940s, Albert Waller was paid by a Harold Purnell of Georgetown to make ... <http://www.delmarvanow.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050618/LIFESTYLE/506180315/1024> SECURITY Hole in PDF Reader Could Expose Local Files Netcraft - UK ... Adobe estimates that there are more than 20 million PDF files available on the Internet, and PDFs are commonly used in legal and medical documents, as well as ... <http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2005/06/17/security_hole_in_pdf_reader_could_expose_local_files.html> STATE reports flying around Jacksonville Lincoln Courier - Lincoln,IL,USA ... The box contained such documents as DHS and DCFS case files, he said. Both DHS and DCFS maintain field offices in the Jacksonville downtown area. ... <http://www.lincolncourier.com/news/05/06/17/f.asp> COVER Story: More vital information about you goes missing than ... San Antonio Express (subscription) - San Antonio,TX,USA ... lost computer backup tapes containing data on 600,000 individuals. Also in May, more than 100,000 customers of Wachovia Corp. and Bank of America Corp., both ... <http://www.mysanantonio.com/business/stories/MYSA061805.4P.BizEx.data_loss.1c7dfe91.html> JOSEPH Smith Papers Project to be under one roof Standard-Examiner (subscription) - Ogden,UT,USA SALT LAKE CITY -- Historians, researchers, archivists and others working on the Joseph Smith Papers Project will soon be housed together in one location at ... <http://www2.standard.net/standard/news/religion/53664/> EXHIBIT delves deep into past Ottawa Sun - Ottawa,Ontario,Canada ... By using digital images, the archivists were able to display maps, photographs and paintings that would otherwise be limited to their home at Library and ... <http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/OttawaSun/News/2005/06/18/1093932-sun.html> LIFTED laptop holds KSU worker data Cleveland Plain Dealer - Cleveland,OH,USA ... The university will pay for the service. Kent is the second university in Northeast Ohio that has had a laptop stolen within the past three weeks. ... <http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/portage/1119087680302512.xml&coll=2> DATA on 5,300 ANA customers stolen Japan Today - Tokyo,Japan ... All Nippon Airways Co said Friday it had three laptop computers, including two machines containing a total of 5,300 customers' personal data, stolen from its ... <http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=2&id=340741> BOX giants fight for secret files Australian - Australia A LEGAL battle is brewing this week over Amcor's use of confidential documents belonging to rival Carter Holt Harvey. The information ... <http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,15667057%255E643,00.html> Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Fri, 17 Jun 2005 8:15 PM PDT Firm stole secrets, charge says http://www.jsonline.com/bym/news/jun05/334661.asp A federal grand jury indictment has charged a Menomonee Falls company and its three co-owners with stealing trade secrets when the three men left Dual Temp Wisconsin of Brookfield last year to found a competing firm, Summit Refrigeration Group... Peter A. Kurilecz Richmond, Va [log in to unmask]