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Rip of the Week: It Gets Worse: 860,000 More Victims of Stolen Laptop Data Breach

The Gainsville Sun reports a further development on a breach that was first reported back in February. Originally, a figure of 208,000 victims was posted, though now the original figure is pegged at 360,000.
Regardless, an additional 860,000 current and former members of AvMed are being notified that their personal information is at risk due to [...]

Rip of the Week: Beijing Center for Chinese Studies (USA) Stolen Laptop Breaches Applicants

This week’s rather classic breach involves The Beijing Center for Chinese Studies, who notified applicants to its programs that their personal information may now be compromised due to a stolen laptop.
According to the entry at DataLossDB, BCCS International Director Roberto Ribeiro sent a letter to at least one Attorney General (New Hampshire), alerting about the [...]

Laptop Theft in Luau Land

Looks like my big, no-holds-barred Hawaii vacation is going to be put on hold. Getting lei’d in aloha-land is a bit less appealing when you hear about the recent laptop theft from the Department of Transportation.
In the middle of March, a laptop was stolen from the Department of Transportation’s Motor Vehicle Safety Office. The office, [...]

Laptop Theft: U.S. Army in England at Risk

The names, post office box numbers, forwarding addresses, units of assignment and work phone numbers of all 6,000 post office box holders from the U.S. Military Base in Mildenhall, England are currently lost in cyberspace.
All of the information, which originally was stored on a password protected military database, was transferred earlier this year to an [...]

WSJ: When The Going Gets Tough…The Worried Buy Credit-Monitoring Services

An article in the Wall Street Journal highlights the growing cottage industry of identity theft monitoring services. The article notes that though the services help prevent or catch identity theft, they will not prevent a thief from using your stolen credit card number to make fraudulent purchases.
Given the recent Heartland Payment Systems, Inc. breach, such [...]

Laptop Theft in Steamboat Springs School District

According to The Steamboat Pilot & Today, a laptop containing the Social Security numbers of 1300 past and present employees was stolen from the Steamboat Springs School District.
In the article, columnist Rob Douglas offers his suggestions to the school district and the public alike, regarding how to breach this important issue.
While Douglas requests that the [...]

Veterans Affairs Department pays dearly for lost laptop

The VA is dishing out up to $20 million after finally settling a lawsuit from 2006. The Associated Press reported that the lawsuit dealt with a stolen laptop and hard drive. A data analyst at the VA admitted that he lost the laptop and hard drive, and that the data within included names, birth dates, [...]