An unidentified accounting firm had lost a laptop which contained unencrypted sensitive data belonging to US payroll employees of Chevron. The company is being tight-lipped on the details of the incident.
The San Ramon oil giant sent an e-mail to U.S. workers Monday warning that a laptop computer “was stolen from an employee of an independent public accounting firm who was auditing our employee savings, health and disability plans.”
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Kent Robertson, a spokesman for the company, declined to provide details about where the laptop theft occurred or the number of Chevron employees affected by the security breach.
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
Written by MCruz on August 19th, 2006 with 2 comments.
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About 1,200 Williams-Sonoma Inc. employees are receiving notice that their personal information is at risk to identity theft. A Deloitte & Touche employee was performing an audit of the company when the laptop containing the personnel data was lost.
The personal and financial information on the employees included payroll data such as names and Social Security numbers, Patricia Sellman, a spokeswoman for the San Francisco-based Williams-Sonoma, said.
After the laptop went missing, Williams-Sonoma sent a letter to staff who were affected, including some former employees, she said. These people have been offered free credit monitoring, Sellman added.
Source: MarketWatch
Written by MCruz on August 15th, 2006 with 1 comment.
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Employees of Belhaven College in Jackson, Mississippi are exposed to identity theft after a laptop computer was stolen. The laptop contained names and Social Security numbers belonging to faculty and staff.
Belhaven College President Roger Parrott confirmed Tuesday the stolen computer contained some personal information on employees. But Parrott said he didn’t know how many of the private school’s roughly 300 employees’ personal information was compromised by the theft.
A memo was sent out to employees on July 25th urging them to monitor their credit rating.
Source: The Clarion Ledger
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A personal computer was stolen from a Lancaster General Hospital (LGH) office on June 10th. Only doctor’s information was stored on the computer. It is believed the equipment was the primary target of the burglary and not the data. Nevertheless, hospital administrators have sent out notification letters to the doctors. The letter instructs physicians to watch their financial accounts and credit card activities for any signs of identity theft.
The letter noted that a “free-standing PC” was stolen from the office, which contained files listing doctors’ practice addresses, phone numbers and Social Security numbers, used “to verify accreditations and educational backgrounds as part of the credentialing process.”
A copy of the notification letter can be seen here.
Source: Lancaster Online
Written by MCruz on July 28th, 2006 with 2 comments.
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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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New Yorkers who have made claims to the special workers’ compensation fund are affected by the breach. A Chicago-based company, CS Stars (subsidiary of Marsh, Inc.) had lost track of a computer which contained the private data. The claims-management firm was hired to install software for the Special Funds Conservation Committee.
The company is offering free credit monitoring up to a year and $25,000 identity-theft insurance to those whose data were lost.
The Special Funds Conservation Committee handles workers’ compensation coverage in New York for about 56,500 disabled workers who suffer a second injury, and about 36,000 old claims that are reopened. In existence since 1938, it maintains records on about 540,000 old and current claimants, said chief executive Steven Licht.
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All the names in the database, Licht said, had address, date of birth and Social Security number attached, and some also would have employer and accident information, but none had confidential medical records included. Licht also said there were copies of all the data, and claims payments had not been interrupted.
Source: Newsday.com
Update (7/25/06): Those affected by the breach should go to the NYS Workers’ Compensation Board website to obtain more information.
Update (7/26/06): The laptop was just found in a secure location. “The computer has been located and is secure,” said Karen Allen, a spokeswoman for the Special Funds Conservation Committee.” The FBI says they are “reasonably certain” the data was not misused. Mercury News has the report.
Written by MCruz on July 22nd, 2006 with 2 comments.
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