Hard drive vanishes from VA facility
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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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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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Wellpoint Inc. , a managed care  firm, has begun notifying 75,000 members of its Empire Blue  Cross and Blue Shield unit in New York that a compact disc  holding their vital medical and other personal information had  disappeared, The New York Times reported.
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL West Virginia is investigating the disappearance of records associated with the school's football program. Citing anonymous sources, The Charleston Gazette reported that files kept in the private office of former coach Rich Rodriguez disappeared between Dec. 16 and Jan. 3, along with strength and conditioning records from the weight room. Assistant athletic director Mike Fragale told the Associated ...
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By Kochanowski, Lisa  Hard drive, "A" drive, network, anti-virus software, software packages ...
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Laptop goes MIA from Westminster A laptop containing information about Parliament's security systems disappeared from, er, the department responsible for Parliament's security last week, claims the Daily Telegraph. According to the paper, the machine belonged to an official working for the Serjeant at Arms, and disappeared from inside the parliamentary estate.â¦
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More than 1,100 laptop computers have vanished from the Department of Commerce since 2001, including nearly 250  from the Census Bureau containing  such personal information  as names, incomes and Social Security numbers, federal officials said yesterday.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs began notifying 1.8 million veterans and doctors Monday that their personal and business information could be on a portable hard drive that has been missing from an Alabama hospital for nearly three weeks.
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Britain's top transport official said Monday that a disk drive containing personal information on three million driving test candidates has been lost in the United States  -  the latest in a series of government blunders over data
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A report concludes two computer disks that disappeared &#151; prompting a virtual shutdown at one of the nation's leading nuclear weapons laboratories &#151; never existed.
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The Birmingham, Alabama Veterans Administration Medical Center said this week it is seeking the return of an external Iomega hard drive containing personal information on at least a half-million people. The Center has brought in the FBI to help investigate and is offering a $25,000 reward.
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There are multiple known instances of lost or stolen tapes but, to the best of my knowledge, not one reported instance of anyone recovering and maliciously using data stored on missing tapes. It's just too hard for an average thief to retrieve it.
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By Dubie, Denise  Getting rid of obsolete computer gear isn't as simple as it used to be. The threat of data loss, coupled with increasingly stringent environmental regulations, has IT pros rethinking their disposal methods.
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The drives from LaCie, use biometrics to restrict access to data and will not work if they've been removed from the case and are plugged into another machine.
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As part of the fallout from an incident at Los Alamos National Lab in July, five workers have been fired. They are among 23 suspended when computer disks containing classified information went missing.
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Visitors with a pirated copy of Windows may lose easy access to company's Download Center.
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WASHINGTON -- The Department of Veterans Affairs says a computer hard drive missing in Alabama since last month was not encrypted, the latest in an embarrassing series of data breaches sparking concern in Congress.