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Yet another in a long procession of laptop thefs, "Stolen laptop contains personal info of 2,500 patients".
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Continue reading How Good are the Security Practices for "America's Most Admired Companies 2007"?...
Saturday, 2/17/07, it was widely reported that the U.S. Veterans Affairs (VA) was suspending "activities at seven specialized research centers across the country after an unprotected computer hard drive disappeared from one of the facilities in Alabama last month."
Today the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) released the "The Federal Bureau of Investigation's Control Over Weapons and Laptop Computers Follow-Up Audit" report.
As you can tell by my post title, this should be a very embarrassing report for the FBI.
Some interesting news from right here in my back yard this week...
The Des Moines Register reported that a laptop was stolen along with other items stolen during a home burglery. The computer had a location-monitoring type of anti-theft package installed.
Continue reading Laptop Theft Incident: Laptop Security Leads To Catching Drug Dealers...
They mailed letters to all 30,000 individuals this week. According to the report this is the first time notifications have been made within N.C. since they put their privacy breach notification law for government agencies into effect during the fall of 2006.
Continue reading Laptop Incident: N.C. Dept of Revenue Laptop Theft Puts 30,000 Residents At Risk...
The Longmont, CO Daily Times reported December 14 that a nurse's laptop was stolen from her car whle she was parked at a restaurant, along with paper records containing personally identifiable information (PII): "students’ names and dates of birth; the names of their schools and what grade they are in; the students’ Medicaid numbers; and their parents’ names."
Continue reading Stolen Laptop: Laptop and Printouts with PII about 600 Students in Colorado...
It was reported December 15 that Boeing had the 3rd laptop stolen in just a little over a year.
The laptop was stolen from an employee's car. PII included "names, home addresses, phone numbers, Social Security numbers and dates of birth for current and former Boeing employees."
An Ameriprise Financial Services laptop was stolen in 2005 that contained clear text personally identifiable information (PII) about over 200,000 individuals.
A report in the Air Force Times indicates a laptop containing personally identifiable information (PII) about 1,000 West Virginia Air National Guard members was stolen during a training trip in November. The spokesperson for the Air National Guard indicated:
"The Air Force uses some of most sophisticated encryption processes to safeguard information on government computers"
Continue reading Laptop Theft: PII About 1,000 W.Va. Air National Guard Members...
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