Ohio laptops often stolen or go missing
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In Dayton, a state employee returns to work to find a $2,000 computer stolen. In Cleveland, someone walks into an unlocked office and takes a $2,200 laptop belonging to the state auditor's office. In Ohio, these scenarios not unusual, with state-issued computers frequently stolen or missing, according to a recent review of reports of stolen equipment by The Associated Press.
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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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By Dan Galindo, Winston-Salem Journal, N.C.  Feb. 7--Twenty computers and monitors were stolen from Sedge Garden Elementary School last week, Winston-Salem police said yesterday.   The Forsyth County Sheriff's Office also has been investigating four other recent break-ins at schools.
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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 Jamie Reid, The Beaumont Enterprise, Texas  Dec. 8--You are not invisible in today's high-tech world, no matter how many times you hit delete.   There's always a trace.
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There's a new kind of theft growing in popularity -- be careful!
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The laptop of a security firm salesman was stolen yesterday at a major IT security conference in London. The portable computer belongs to identity management firm -- and sponsor for the event -- Netegrity, and
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THIEVES and vandals have struck in three parts of the Waterside area of Londonderry.   At Campsie Industrial Estate two Dell laptop computers have been stolen from commercial premises. The computers, valued at around pounds 550 each, were taken between 5.30pm on Monday and 7.30am yesterday.
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Every month seems to bring another episode of sensitive personal information escaping into the wild because a corporate or government laptop computer is lost or stolen. A common response is a lot of hand-wringing over how the data should have been encrypted.
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By Alan Fram, Associated Press  Sun block. Beach umbrella. Laptop.   One in five people toted laptop computers on their most recent vacations, an Associated Press-Ipsos poll released Friday said.
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By Jennifer Greff, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  Feb. 27--A computer server used by Douglas County and Omaha law enforcement to store mug shots of crime suspects crashed recently, and some of the photos may be lost.
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A state government intern in Ohio last week lost a backup device that contained personal data on more than 64,000 state workers and tens of thousands of other people.
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A disk carrying the Social Security numbers and other personal information on all 64,000 Ohio state employees was stolen from a state worker's car last weekend, Gov. Ted Strickland said Friday.
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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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By Jim Provance, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio  Jun. 16--COLUMBUS -- A thief made away with a state government computer backup "storage device" containing the names and COLUMBUS numbers of more than 64,000 state employees, prompting Gov. Ted Strickland to issue an alert yesterday.
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By Vanessa Thomas  Imagine a laboratory filled with equipment advanced enough to locate deleted child pornography on a hard drive, recover old e- mails sent on a cell phone and trace the owner of a camera used to download photographs onto a laptop.
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The FBI lost 160 laptop computers in less than four years, including at least 10 that contained highly sensitive classified information and one that held "personal identifying information on FBI personnel," according to a new report released today.