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Specialty retailer The Neiman Marcus Group Inc. yesterday sent letters to nearly 160,000 current and former employees to tell them of a potential breach involving their personal data.
The letters were prompted by the theft of “computer equipment” from a third-party pension plan consultant working for the retailer. The equipment held the data now potentially at risk.
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The data was contained in a file on the stolen equipment and included names, dates of birth, addresses, Social Security numbers, and salary and other information.
[Computerworld]
Written by MCruz on April 25th, 2007 with no comments.
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Former employee arrested in ID theft scheme.
Colorado Springs Utilities says it’s not sure how many customers’ personal info may have been compromised following the recent arrest of a former employee in Arizona. 26-year-old former staff engineer Elizabeth Bischoff was arrested Wednesday, March 14 in Scottsdale, Arizona after trying to purchase a more-than-$90,000 car with a fake ID and stolen credit card, according to Scottsdale police.
Concerned customers can call Colorado Springs Utilities at 719-448-4800.
[KRDO.com]
Written by MCruz on March 20th, 2007 with no comments.
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About 79,000 MoneyGram customers are being notified that their personal information may have been accessed last month.
The company said that it had not been able to determine if any information was actually stolen, but the company was notifying customers that someone may have viewed their personal data.
The information involved did not include Social Security or driver’s license numbers. It did include the names, addresses, phone numbers — and in some cases — the bank account numbers of MoneyGram customers.
Affected customers are being offered one year’s subscription to a credit monitoring service.
Source: BusinessWeek
Written by MCruz on January 12th, 2007 with no comments.
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Current and former Starbucks employees’ personal data were lost in two missing laptops.
Starbucks Corp., the world’s largest coffee retailer, said Friday that laptops containing the names, addresses and Social Security numbers of 60,000 current and former employees are missing.
The company said it has been unable to find four out-of-use laptops at its Seattle headquarters, a nine-floor building in the Sodo area. Two of those computers had personal information on employees hired prior to Dec. 31, 2003, said Valerie O’Neil, Starbucks spokeswoman. She did not know what information was on the other two computers.
The company has setup a web site for anyone who needs additional information.
Source: Seattle Times
Written by MCruz on November 5th, 2006 with no comments.
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T-Mobile employees were notified early this week that they were at risk to identity theft. Their personal information was stored in a laptop stolen from employee’s checked luggage.
A laptop containing the Social Security numbers and other personal information of T-Mobile USA Inc. employees recently disappeared, putting as many as 43,000 current and former workers at risk of identity theft.
This incident is similar to other laptop thefts which has occurred over the year.
Source: The Oregonian
Written by MCruz on October 20th, 2006 with 1 comment.
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A GE employee loses a laptop from a locked hotel room early this month.
General Electric said on Tuesday that a company laptop containing the names and Social Security numbers of 50,000 current and former employees was stolen in early September.
Source: News.com Thanks Mark for the tip!
Written by MCruz on September 28th, 2006 with no comments.
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