Lost Laptop Exposes Nashville Voters to Identity Theft
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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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A PC drive offered for sale as new on eBay turned out to have come from the laptop of an Arkansas Democratic Party official -- and it still contained sensitive information when the buyer received it.
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The FBI said that 160 laptop computers were lost or stolen in less than four years, including at least 10 that contained sensitive or classified information -- one of which held "personal identifying information on FBI personnel," according to a report released yesterday.
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Innocence lost There's trouble in paradise after a third-party supplier lost a laptop containing the personal details of hundreds of workers at Cornwall's Eden Project. The theft of the PC from the car of a worker for Moorepay, the firm that handles the project's payroll, has sparked ID theft fears.â¦
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Burglars stole two computers containing records on people who receive medical assistance benefits for mental health and substance abuse treatment, state officials said Tuesday.
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Stolen company laptop contained personal information about approximately 10,000 employees of the home improvement retailer.
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Captain Corelli's Mandolin author Louis de Bernieres offers a reward for the return of his stolen laptop.
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Data about 106,000 state taxpayers was exposed in the theft of a notebook.
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By Phil Mulkins, Tulsa World, Okla.  Sep. 15--Dear Action Line: My kids think I'm an old fuddy-dud and bought me a computer with Internet service to "modernize me." On Monday, you said there were sneaks out there using "spyware" to steal my identity.
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General Electric Co. said on Tuesday   that a company laptop containing the names and Social Security   numbers of 50,000 current and former employees was stolen in   early September.
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Personal information about Americans is stolen or lost from some government or private computer almost daily, but congressional auditors can link only a few identity thefts to the breaches.
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Thieves who broke into a driver's license center stole equipment to make fraudulent licenses and got away with computers containing personal information on more than 11,000 customers, officials said Thursday.
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Things just aren&#39;t going well for Timothy Scott Short. Just days after a pair of tech support calls he made to printer manufacturer Digimarc&#160;resulted in his arrest, he now finds himself on the receiving end of a data breach with his Social Security number and birthdate accidentally made public via the federal court&#39;s Electronic Case Files (ECF) system.It&#39;s an ironic development, because Short, 33, was arrested in connection with the Oct. 5 theft of a Missouri Department of Revenue printer and a PC containing data on as many as 500 state residents.Short&#39;s personal information was discovered by the IDG News Service, listed on a court document called a Criminal Case Cover Sheet, which was publicly available to users of the ECF system. Normally, this document should only be accessible to those involved in the case, but it appears to have been inadvertently made public, according to a clerk with the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, who asked not to be identified because she was not authorized to speak with the press. &quot;It&#39;s something on our side,&quot; she said, adding that technical staff is now looking into the problem.The U.S. Judicial Conference, which sets policy for U.S. courts, has said that this kind of information should be removed from publicly available electronic court records, but actually removing all the sensitive information has proved difficult.&quot;If you went online to various court systems, you could find social security numbers of many individuals,&quot; said Paul Stephens, director of policy and advocacy with the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse. &quot;It&#39;s a really, really difficult question to answer, just because you&#39;re dealing with so many jurisdictions.&quot;Social Security numbers are the building blocks of identity theft crime because they can be used to secure credit cards. &quot;Any time you are placing Social Security numbers online, your are subjecting that person to identity theft,&quot; Stephens said.With the push to make public documents available online, other government databases have had similar problems. Earlier this year, the states of California and Colorado were forced to take their Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) databases offline after privacy advocates pointed out that the Social Security numbers and other data they contained could be misused by identity thieves.Short, however, may have bigger problems to worry about. He&#39;s facing $250,000 in fines and 10 years in prison on charges of possession of &quot;document-making implements&quot; in connection with the theft. He was arrested after U.S. Secret Service Special Agent John Bush recognized his voice in calls placed to a tech support line of the company that makes the stolen printer.&#160;
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The campaign headquarters for Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney was burglarized over the weekend and a television and computers stolen.
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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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Some voters say machines indicated they had voted for a different candidate.
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A notebook PC containing the personal information of thousands of blood donors was stolen from a blood bank in California last Friday, exposing those donors to the possibility of identify theft.