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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A contractor’s mistake has the TSA warning its former employees that their personal information were mailed to the wrong addresses.
Accenture, a contractor that handles TSA personnel, sent 1,195 documents to the wrong former employees during a recent mailing, according to a letter signed by Richard Whitford, TSA assistant administrator for human capital.
The documents were standard forms that are sent to employees after they leave the government. The forms often list an employee’s Social Security number, birth date and salary. It’s unclear how many forms had that information.
Source: USA Today
Written by MCruz on September 6th, 2006 with no comments.
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Approximately 38,000 current and retired City of Chicago worker’s personal data were stored in a laptop that was stolen back in April 2005. The computer was stolen from an employee’s home who worked for Nationwide Retirement Solutions.
The company says the risk anyone might access the data, which included names, addresses, phone numbers, birth dates and Social Security numbers, is low because the computer was protected by a complicated password and a user identification, according to the city.
The company is in the process of notifying affected people and is offering one year of free credit monitoring.
Source: Chicago Tribune Thanks to MaxxP for the tip!
Written by MCruz on September 1st, 2006 with no comments.
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Wells Fargo sent a letter to its employees early this week warning “that a computer and data disk containing some of your personal information has been stolen” from an employee of an independent public accounting firm. The firm was hired to review Wells Fargo’s health and welfare plans.
The letter does not indicate how many employees were affected nor who was the accounting firm responsible.
According to the auditor, the data disk, which was stolen from the trunk of a locked vehicle belonging to one of their employees, included your name, Social Security Number and information about your prescription drug claims.
Wells Fargo is offering a free one-year subscription to a credit monitoring service. Employees are encouraged to call the HR Service Center if they have any questions or concerns.
A faxed copy of the notification letter can be found below:
Source: Patricia from the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
Written by MCruz on August 31st, 2006 with 2 comments.
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A campus mugging at Belhaven College results in an employee to give up their wallet and laptop computer. The laptop computer happens to contain personal information belonging to the college’s employees.
A laptop computer that contained the Social Security numbers of roughly 300 Belhaven College employees was stolen during a robbery on campus, officials say.
Belhaven College President Roger Parrott said Tuesday that the robbery took place on July 19 when a school employee was walking to his car after work. A man approached him from behind. The man took the employee’s wallet and laptop computer then fled.
Source: SunHerald
Written by MCruz on August 27th, 2006 with no comments.
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A break-in at the Beaverton School District administration office’s storage shed exposes their employees’ personal data.
Beaverton school officials have notified about 1,600 employees that time slips revealing personal information were missing following a July 24 break-in.
School officials sent letters home late last week, notifying staff members of the theft. The school district will provide a year of credit reporting to the full-time teachers, substitutes and other staff whose Social Security numbers were printed on the slips.
Source: The Oregonian
Written by MCruz on August 22nd, 2006 with no comments.
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