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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 [...]