Government says stolen VA laptop recovered
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The government has recovered the stolen laptop computer and hard drive containing sensitive data for up to 26.5 million veterans and military personnel, Veterans Affairs Secretary Jim Nicholson said Thursday.
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Stolen company laptop contained personal information about approximately 10,000 employees of the home improvement retailer.
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The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs hasn't finished implementing most of the IT security improvements recommended by federal auditors after a laptop containing sensitive data was stolen from an employee's home in May 2006.
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A laptop drive offered for sale as new on eBay turned out to have come from the laptop of an Arkansas Democratic Party official -- and still contained sensitive information when the buyer received it.
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The laptop holds no local data, so no worries if it's lost or stolen.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs is once again chasing a missing hard drive, this one containing the records of 48,000 military veterans. Approxiately 20,000 of those records were not encrypted according to agency spokespersons.
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A laptop containing confidential information linked to the inquiry into the murder of loyalist Billy Wright, is stolen.
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The U.S. Commerce Department has admitted that more than 1,100 laptop computers have gone missing in the last five years, including almost 250 from the Census Bureau.
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By CINDY CLAYTON  BY CINDY CLAYTON  THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT  CHESAPEAKE - Two board members disclosed Friday that they a re among about 250 school system employees who learned last week that their personal information has been stolen.
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The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has made progress on data security since last May's laptop theft, but still needs to address a variety of shortcomings, government auditors say.
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By MATT REED  COLUMBUS, Ohio - The state has hired a computer security expert to determine the likelihood of someone getting access to the data on a stolen backup storage device, Gov. Ted Strickland said Sunday.
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The theft of a laptop containing Social Security numbers of Nashville, Tennessee, area voters is expected to cost local officials about US$1 million as they roll out identity-theft protection to those affected.
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A stolen computer back-up tape contained the names and Social Security numbers of more than 64,000 Ohio state workers, it was reported Saturday.  The tape was stolen last Sunday from a state intern's unlocked car, Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland said at a news conference Friday.
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A stolen computer storage device contained more than twice the number of taxpayers' identifications than had been previously reported, Gov. Ted Strickland said Wednesday, but he emphasized there is still no indication the data have been compromised.
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As part of its ongoing efforts to ramp up security, the Department of Veterans Affairs has just finished installing encryption software on 15,000 laptops.
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Police have recovered the laptop  computer stolen from actor Robert Blake's attorney on the eve  of his murder trial, a theft that delayed the start of the  proceedings by two weeks, officials said on Tuesday.
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Lawmakers say they want to know whether a Veterans Affairs employee was being unfairly blamed for losing veterans&#039; personal information, citing newly disclosed documents showing he had received permission to work on the data from home.