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About 12,000 current and former employees of Armstrong World Industries have to worry about identity theft. A laptop containing confidential personnel information was recently stolen from a Deloitte & Touche LLP employee. The firm was hired to perform regular internal audits for Armstrong.
F. Nicholas Grasberger III, Armstrong senior vice president and chief financial officer, said the personal information on the stolen laptop contained names, home addresses, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, employee identification numbers, annual salary/hourly wage data and the bank account numbers of employees who have their checks directly deposited.
Source: Lancaster Online
Written by MCruz on July 25th, 2006 with no comments.
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About 50,000 Minnesota taxpayers should be on alert for identity theft for the next few months. A server backup tape has been missing for more than a month. Oregon taxpayers had a similar incident a few days ago.
A server backup tape was lost containing Social Security numbers and other information for 2,400 individual taxpayers and identifying information on 48,000 businesses. The tape was sent in a package along with three checks totaling $2,400 and some interoffice correspondence.
Source: MN Public Radio
Written by MCruz on June 28th, 2006 with no comments.
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A laptop containing Equifax employee names and Social Security numbers was stolen from a worker traveling in London.
The May 29 theft affects nearly all of the Atlanta-based company’s nearly 2,500 U.S. employees, aside from those hired in roughly the last two months, spokesman David Rubinger said.
Personal data of millions of consumers who obtain credit scores from Equifax were not compromised, Rubinger said. Equifax employs about 4,600 people worldwide.
Source: Washington Post
Written by MCruz on June 21st, 2006 with no comments.
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A computer server was recently stolen from a Midwest office of American Insurance Group (AIG). The hardware equipment contained names, Social Security numbers and medical records for 930,000 Americans.
The server contains detailed personal data from 930,000 prospective AIG customers, whose information had been forwarded to the insurance firm from 690 insurance brokers around the country. The potential customers’ employers were shopping with AIG for rates for excess medical coverage, the spokesman says, when they forwarded the personal data to AIG.
AIG has not yet notified any of the people whose personal data are on the stolen server. AIG security officials have been conducting a forensic analysis of the theft, and warned the 690 insurance brokers of the problem on May 26.
Source: MSN NBC
Written by MCruz on June 15th, 2006 with no comments.
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Former Stop & Shop employees are at risk for identity theft. A laptop containing their names, birth dates and Social Security numbers recently disappeared from luggage checked-in on an airline flight.
The laptop, owned by Ahold USA, contains sensitive personal information such as employees Social Security numbers. It never made it to baggage claim and is believed now to have been stolen.
Source: Hartford Courant
Written by MCruz on June 6th, 2006 with no comments.
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Late last week, Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corp.(TC) announced that personal data belonging to approximately 1.3 million borrowers may have been lost. The data was stored on a “piece of equipment” which one of their third-party contractors (Hummingbird Ltd.) had lost. It contained borrower names and social security numbers.
TG has setup a website with recommendations on how to protect those affected from identity theft.
Source: Yahoo! News (Thanks to Patricia for the news tip!)
Written by MCruz on June 3rd, 2006 with no comments.
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