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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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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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Laptops stolen from vehicles contained personal data belonging to Sovereign Bank customers. A bank spokesperson declines to comment on exactly how many customers were affected by the breach.
Sovereign Bank is warning thousands of customers that their personal data may have been stolen along with three managers’ laptops taken earlier this month in Massachusetts.
Bank officials said fewer than 1 percent of customers in the New England and Mid-Atlantic area may have been affected, the Standard-Times of New Bedford reported.
Source: The Boston Globe Thanks to Patricia for the tip!
Written by MCruz on August 29th, 2006 with no 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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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 1 comment.
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Several personal personal computers and laptops were stolen from a regional office operated by the Hospital Corporation of America. This affects patients at Methodist Hospital, Metropolitan Methodist, Northeast Methodist and Methodist Ambulatory Surgery hospitals.
During a break-in at an HCA regional office, 10 computers were stolen, which held thousands of files listing unpaid bills from Medicare and Medicaid patients for hospitals in eight states. The records were required for government reports. The computers were stolen from a secured building, protected by keypad lock technology and video surveillance. All required a password for access. An analysis is ongoing, but law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, have launched an investigation of the theft.
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Data on the stolen computers included some patient social security numbers, and in a small number of cases, codes used by the government to identify patient groups.
To find out if you are affected, visit the Hospital Corporation of America site or call (800)354-1036.
Source: WOAI San Antonio News
Written by MCruz on August 17th, 2006 with 1 comment.
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