eBay hard drive spills out governor's campaign documents
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A bargain at $69 From the files of IT bloopers comes this cautionary tale: a California man stumbled upon a stash of confidential data belonging to the Arkansas Democratic Party after its computer consultant accidentally sold a hard drive containing the material on eBay.â¦
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A New York state employee who had access to government-owned archives has been arrested on suspicion of stealing hundreds of historic documents, many of which he sold on eBay, authorities said on Monday.
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A dossier purportedly showing the sale of illegal firearms on eBay is to be handed to the home secretary.
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More than 4,500 votes have been lost in one North Carolina county because officials believed a computer that stored ballots electronically could hold more data than it did. Scattered other problems may change results in races around the state.
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SEPTEMBER 03, 2004  - The disappearance of a laptop hard drive in the California State University (CSU) system has triggered a year-old state law requiring anyone whose personal information might have been stolen to be notified.
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By Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press  Sep. 11--If you want to run for office with a human touch, try using a little technology.   At his gubernatorial campaign Web site, Republican challenger Dick DeVos regularly posts video logs that let him talk directly to online visitors.
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A missing computer backup tape containing personal information on state employees also holds the names and Social Security numbers of 225,000 taxpayers, Gov. Ted Strickland said.
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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 Â the latest in a series of government blunders over data.
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A fund-raising e-mail from a Democratic congressional candidate contained a hidden expletive directed at his opponent, a newspaper reported Saturday.
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Nevada election officials have launched an investigation into allegations that a Republican-led voter registration drive improperly disposed of forms it collected from potential Democratic voters.
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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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"I might put them on eBay for auction to get the funds back"  Riga - Latvia's former president, Vaira Vike-Freiberga, is considering using eBay to auction off the wardrobe she wore in office in an attempt to recoup money she spent to look attractive and presidential. via Independent Online
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NHS trust hard drives at knock-down prices The Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Trust is trying to find out how one of its computers full of confidential medical information was sold on eBay.â¦
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Massive database holds info on millions of voters, and is used to get people to the polls.
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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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A laptop containing data on 106,000 Connecticut taxpayers is missing, prompting that state's governor to order IT officials to implement new controls for protecting data by Sept. 7.
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Data about 106,000 state taxpayers was exposed in the theft of a notebook.