Data on 64,000 Ohio state workers stolen
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A data storage device with the Social Security numbers and other personal information on all 64,000 Ohio state employees was stolen from a state intern's car last weekend, Gov. Ted Strickland said Friday.
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THIEVES have stolen 65 computers during a raid on a health trust, police said yesterday.   Dell PCs and laptops were seized from a container at the back of the premises in Ballymena, Co Antrim.
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By Holly K. Hacker, The Dallas Morning News  Dec. 13--A computer network attack at the University of Texas at Dallas may have exposed Social Security numbers and other personal information for 5,000 current and former students, faculty and others, campus officials said Tuesday.
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The personal details of up to 600,000 people were lost when a Royal Navy officer's laptop was stolen in the latest embarrassment to hit British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
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NEW YORK -- Americans lost about $49.3 billion in 2006 to criminals who stole their identities, an 11.5 percent decline that may reflect increased vigilance among consumers and businesses, a study released yesterday shows.
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p2pnet.net News:- &quot;UC Berkeley officials issued a statement of regret about a computer hacking that may have exposed the names and social security numbers of about 600,000 people,&quot; says the Berkeley Daily Planet.
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The University of California, Los Angeles, reports one or more computer hackers have accessed a database containing the personal information of 800,000 people.  The school said the central campus database was accessed between October 2005 and Nov.
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(InfoWorld) - A stolen laptop at The Boeing Co. has pushed a widely watched tally of U.S. data breach victims past the 100 million mark. On Tuesday, Boeing disclosed that files containing Social Security numbers, names and home addresses of 382,000 current and former employees were compromised in early December when an unencrypted laptop was stolen from an employee's car. That disclosure pushed the total number of data breach victims on the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse Web site to 100,152,801, said Beth Givens, director of the consumer advocacy group. Privacy Rights Clearinghouse has been tracking data breaches since February 2005, whenÂ ChoicePoint disclosedÂ that thieves had stolen information on 163,000 victims from the company's database. The ChoicePoint incident was remarkable because although the data broker was obligated to disclose the theft to victims living in California -- the only state with a beach notification law on the books -- it decided to notify everyone, Givens said. "That was the first time, to the best of our knowledge, that a breached entity decided to disclose the event to individuals nationwide," she said. "That was a watershed event," she added, "because other entities that had experienced breaches started disclosing the situation to individuals nationwide" Since the ChoicePoint incident, data security has been in the spotlight, andÂ breaches at the U.S. Department of Veteran's AffairsÂ and, most recently, Boeing and theÂ University of California-Los Angeles, have received national attention. Givens believes that the actual number of names that have been compromised since ChoicePoint is probably much higher than her tally. "I think the number 100 million is largely a fictional number, but what it really indicates is that this is a very significant problem," she said. She couldn't say whether all the publicity has made consumers any more secure. "It's quite obvious from the listing that we've compiled that we're in a very leaky boat when it comes to data security," she said. "I don't think that consumers can feel confident about the protection that their personal information receives."
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Portable device may have been stolen from an Alabama medical center and may house data on as many as 48,000 vets.
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Personal information on about 650,000 customers of J.C. Penney and up to 100 other retailers could be compromised after a computer tape went missing.
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By Jason A. Kahl, Reading Eagle, Pa.  Feb. 28--Computers containing personal information on about 4,200 students and staff at Reading Area Community College have been stolen, leaving those people at risk of identity theft and financial fraud, officials said Tuesday.
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Time to call the credit bureaus? Almost 1.4 million records containing the personal information of Californians likely stolen.
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Names, Social Security numbers and home addresses of nearly 1,740 former Chicago school employees were mistakenly mailed to other members of the group, prompting concerns the information could be used for identity theft.
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The state of California has warned residents that their personal data may have been stolen from computers at the University of California, Berkeley, after a database used by researchers there was compromised by hackers.
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A laptop containing the details of 600,000 people has been stolen, the Ministry of Defence announced Friday, in another staggering loss of personal data in Britain.
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LOS ANGELES - California university officials have warned nearly 600,000 students and faculty that they might be exposed to identity theft following incidents where computer hard drives loaded with their private information were lost or hacked into.
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SAN FRANCISCO  - A computer hacker accessed names and Social Security numbers of about 1.4 million Californians after breaking into a University of California, Berkeley, computer system in perhaps the worst attack of its kind ever suffered by the school, officials said on Tuesday.