Tag archive for ‘identity theft’
Stricter rules in Connecticut result in zero ID theft
According to an article in the Connecticut Post, there has not been a single case of identity theft linked to the August laptop theft from a state employee’s vehicle.
The laptop contained the names and Social Security numbers of more than 106,000 Connecticut residents, including many high profile state officials. After the theft, weeks of public [...]
Somewhere, identity thieves may already have imbibed nearly 200,000 unique data records
Somewhere, thieves may already be drunk on the confidential information identifying close to 200,000 current and former employers of domestic brewer Anheuser-Busch Companies Inc. That’s because two laptops belonging to the firm went missing to thieves in June, according to The Associated Press. As typically seems to be the case with such thefts, “the company [...]
9,000 employees’ personal information stored on 12 stolen laptops belonging to major cable company
Say you work for a large company–seems like a safe bet, right? You often have job security, generous benefits, and many other perks. You’d think that security would extend to your Social Security number and other data, which the company has by virtue of you being its employee. But that security isn’t always a given; [...]
Government agency just now notifies 380,000 that their information was on a laptop computer stolen one year ago
We’ve reported on the prevalence of laptop theft in many ways. The crime is rampant, frequently places consumers’ valuable data records in harm’s way, and costs billions. And now we can top off all this with the fact that many organizations seem to take forever to notify those whose data records are on stolen machines [...]
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