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Laptop Theft: Woman’s Last Months Recorded on Stolen Laptop
Birmingham Mail reported Saturday that the parents of Clare Jones of Kings Heath are pleading for the return of a precious laptop.
The laptop, stolen January 24th, contained pictures of the past year. Clare Jones was diagnosed with non-hodgkins lymphoma in January of last year, and her father was fervently recording her struggle with cancer. All [...]
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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