Data of 600,000 lost in UK laptop theft
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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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More than 1,100 Commerce Department   laptop computers were lost, stolen or missing in the last five   years, and some contained personal data from the U.S. Census   Bureau, the department said.
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A HEADTEACHER has condemned thieves who broke into a school and stole computers worth about [pounds]17,000.  Lynne Ackland, headteacher of Sedgefield Community College, said the laptops were a important for pupils.
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Intruder gained access to database holding personal information for up to 600,000 elderly and disabled Californians.
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14,000 accounts suspended after latest data breach Skipton Financial Services has confessed to losing a laptop containing records of 14,000 customers. Information exposed by the breach includes names, addresses, National Insurance numbers, and fund investment details of clients of Skipton's Fidelity FundsNetwork.â¦
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Red-faced London police have said they are investigating the theft of three laptop computers containing their own payroll information.
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(InfoWorld) - The U.S. Commerce Department reported that 1,137 laptops have been lost or stolen since 2001, with 249 of them containing some degree of personal data. The department couldn't determine whose data may have been on the machines, of which 672 belonged to the Census Bureau. It wasn't aware of any data having being used improperly, it said Thursday. The findings are from a Commerce Department review covering 15 agencies that use a total of 30,000 laptops. It comes as businesses and governments try to tighten their control over mobile devices after several high-profile incidents concerning theÂ loss of sensitive data. The Census Bureau's laptops -- used for collecting census data in the field -- rarely contain data on more than 100 households, and the data can't be accessed by the surveyors, many of whom are temporary, hourly employees. the department said. However, the Census Bureau also lost 15 handheld computers used to gather survey data. As a result, the department is contacting 558 households. The risk of the data being misused was "extremely low," it said, since the data is encrypted and two passwords are required for access. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which falls under the Commerce Department, lost 325 laptops, three of which had personal data. One of the laptops was stolen after a fire at one of its buildings in Seattle, Washington. The machine contained addresses, birth dates and Social Security numbers for 146 employees, the department said. Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez said the agency plans toÂ strengthen accountability standards, encrypt data on all department laptops and implement two-factor authentication. U.S. government agencies have been stung by hardware losses in recent months. In May, aÂ laptop and external hard drive was stolenÂ from the home of a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs employee containingÂ data on 26.5 million veteransÂ and active-duty military personnel. The laptop was recovered, and two teenagers were arrested in June. Â
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Data on 37 million Brits mislaid Last year was the worst ever for data losses in the UK, with almost 37 million people having their private data compromised.â¦
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POLICE are hunting thieves who stole computers after breaking into offices in Harrison Way, Leamington.  Two men were seen going into a first-floor office at The Wolseley Centre.  Two laptops, a PDA hand-held computer and two high-visibility jackets were stolen.
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The Nationwide Building Society is fined Â£980,000 over security breaches following the theft of a laptop.
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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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A laptop computer loaded with personal information on 2,400 residents of the Camp Pendleton Marine Corps base has been lost, authorities said Friday.
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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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By Douglass K. Daniel  The Commerce Department has lost 1,137 laptop computers since 2001, most of them assigned to the Census Bureau, officials said Thursday night.  The Census Bureau, the main collector of information about Americans, lost 672 computers.
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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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A laptop stolen from a GP surgery had personal details of almost 1,000 diabetes patients, it emerges.
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M&S broke data protection rules over a stolen laptop containing details of 26,000 staff, a watchdog says.