Laptop Computer Security

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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: Thrivent Financial Suffers Mysterious Data Breach

A somewhat curious, and rather terse, laptop theft is this week’s Rip. Thanks to kirniki over at DataLossDB for the tip, National Underwriter reports that Thrivent Financial experienced a break-in at an office in Pennsylvania. A laptop was stolen, which contained personal information, including names, addresses, Social Security Numbers and health information.
But what is curious [...]

Rip of the Week: Hospital Apologizes for Medical Data Breach

We’ll combine a couple of medical data thefts for this week’s Rip of the Week.
First, the San Francisco Business Times reports that UC San Francisco reported a laptop theft that occurred on our about November 30, breaching 4,400 patients of the UCSF School of Medicine. The data included names, medical record numbers, age and clinical [...]

Rip of the Week: Oops, We Did it Again: 17,214 SSNs Exposed

In yet another verse out of the same, long song, “Virginia Commonwealth University is notifying 17,214 current and former students of a security breach that may have exposed their Social Security numbers.”
The data were breached on a stolen computer, though the article doesn’t make clear whether the machine was a laptop or a desktop. In [...]