Laptop Computer Security

Tag archive for ‘PII’

Rip of the Week: South Carolina Hospital Breached by Laptop Theft

Another hospital has suffered a costly and dangerous data breach. This one, it turns out, actually happened a few months ago. WSPA reports that Spartanburg Regional Hospital in Spartanburg, SC, has warned “potentially thousands” of patients that their personal information could be at risk thanks to a stolen laptop. An employee’s work laptop was stolen [...]

Rip of the Week: Cord Blood Registry Notifies 300,000 After Unencrypted Tapes and Laptop Stolen

Unencrypted data storage tapes and a laptop were stolen from an employee’s car, leading the Cord Blood Registry to notify 300,000 people that their data may be at risk. Paul McNamara summarizes at NetworkWorld, with thanks to Redemtech for the tip. The break-in occurred on December 13, 2010 and CBR, based in San Francisco, mailed [...]

Rip of the Week: Salvation Army Stolen Laptop Contains Information About Mercy Recipients

This Rip of the Week has good news and bad news. First, the bad news. The Salvation Army in Union, SC was broken into. Three times. In two months. In the latest burglary, a laptop was stolen, which contained information about the people the Salvation Army was helping. News Channel 7 reports, and thanks to [...]

Hack Case Study: You Talk Too Much

The Wall Street Journal gives very interesting look at a rather clever attack vector for cyber criminals. M.P. McQueen reports on a giant international cyber-theft ring bent on raiding bank and brokerage accounts. That’s nothing new. How they did it, however, is fodder for the latest discussion at the water cooler (for those types who [...]

Rip of the Week: All We Are is Breach in the Wind

No laptop involved on this one, but here’s a very interesting breach case coming out of Indiana. Literally, it might be coming out of Indiana, depending on which way the wind is blowing. Law.com reports:
An Indiana adoption lawyer whose client files were scattered in the wind after his adult children left boxes of them [...]

Rip of the Week: It’s a Data Breach Medley

There are so many high-profile, damaging, data breach laptop thefts (and storage device thefts) in the news right now it seems impossible to pick just one. So, I won’t. Let’s have a fast roundup of several–a Data Breach Medley.
Verse 1: Car thieves get personal data on Portland psychology patients, unemployed Oregonians (thanks to Jake K [...]

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 [...]

207,000 US Army Reservists Breached by Stolen Laptop

In another serious breach involving the Personally Identifiable Information (PII) of US military personnel, the United States Army Reserves has reported the theft of three laptop computers, one of which contained a CD in the CD-ROM drive. Said CD contained the names, addresses and Social Security numbers of more than 207,000 reservists.
GovInfo Security reports that [...]