June 18th, 2006
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A laptop computer was stolen from the home of an employee of ING U.S. Financial. The unprotected laptop contained unencrypted personal information belonging to 13,000 workers and retirees.
ING, which administers the District’s retirement plan, known as DCPlus, notified the city about the theft late Friday.
The company is mailing a letter to all affected account holders to alert them to the risk of someone using the information to commit identity theft, spokeswoman Caroline Campbell said. The company is also telling customers that it will set up and pay for a year of credit monitoring and identity fraud protection.
Source: Washington Post Thanks to Viv for the news tip!
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Current and former students are at risk for identity theft.
In its second recent security breach, the University of Kentucky has notified 6,500 current and former students that their names, grades and social security numbers may have been stolen.
No arrests have been made, and the investigation is ongoing, officials said Friday.
Source: The Courier-Journal Thanks for the link, Bill!
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A computer was stolen from the home of a Union Pacific (UP) employee in Omaha, Nebraska. The computer contained personal information such as Social Security numbers and birth dates belonging to about 30,000 of its employees.
Like the VA theft, the UP employee was not following company security procedures.
Source: KVIA - The El Paso News Leader Thanks Patricia for the tip!
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Last week, 8,500 Jackson Health employees were notified that their personal information was stored on two laptops stolen seven months ago.
The computers, belonging to financial services provider ING, contained information gathered during a voluntary life insurance enrollment drive in December and included names, birth dates and social security numbers.
“We are relatively certain the computers were stolen for their hardware value and the personal information was not accessed,” said Chuck Eudy, a North American spokesman for ING, based in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
ING is providing free credit monitoring service for a year for those who sign up.
Source: The Miami Herald
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A computer cartridge containing payroll information belonging to state employees was lost in transit from the state comptroller’s data center.
The employees, who work for a variety of state agencies, will receive a “dear employee” letter dated June 14 and signed by Assistant Comptroller Daniel C. Berry. The letter also includes generic information from state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer’s office titled, “Identity Theft: What To Do If You Have Been Victimized.”
In the letter, Berry said the payroll data, which contained names, salaries, Social Security numbers and home addresses, was shipped May 30 from the state comptroller’s data center in Rensselaer to the W. Averell Harriman State Office Campus in Albany “but was not received at its intended destination.”
Source: Albany NY News
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Identities belonging to over 2,200 Oregon taxpayers were stolen by keylogging software installed on a state PC.
The breach was caused by a former Oregon Department of Revenue employee who was downloading pornographic material on the work PC.
The identities included Social Security numbers, names, and addresses, and were transmitted to an unknown hacker by the keylogger, said the Department of Revenue in an online FAQ. According to the DOR, its anti-malware filters didn’t pick up the Trojan because it was so new that anti-virus vendors hadn’t yet created detecting signatures.
More information about the incident can be found on the Oregon DOR site.
Source: InformationWeek
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