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Stolen PC had Agilent workers' personal data

Wed, 07 May 2008 15:43:00 +0200

"A laptop containing sensitive and unencrypted personal data on 51,000 current and former employees of Agilent Technologies was stolen from the car of an Agilent vendor March 1 in San Francisco, the company said in a letter mailed to former employees this week."...

New data security breaches come in fours

Wed, 07 May 2008 15:42:22 +0200

"Potential compromises of personal info disclosed by a quartet of organizations

More U.K. government laptops go missing

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 08:43:31 +0100

"The Ministry of Defence is launching a new inquiry after admitting to the loss of two more laptops containing unencrypted personal details."...

NHS laptop with 5,123 patient records stolen

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:41:21 +0100

"An NHS laptop holding information on 5,123 patients has been stolen from a hospital in Dudley."...

New Data Scandal: MoD Laptop Stolen

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:18:23 +0100

"The Government is under fire for yet another data breach after revealing a Royal Navy officer's laptop containing the details of 600,000 people has been stolen."...

230 retailers affected by data breach after tape lost

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 06:48:12 +0100

"A backup tape containing credit-card information from hundreds of U.S. retailers is missing, forcing the company responsible for the data to warn customers that they may become the targets of data fraud." ... "The missing backup tape was unencrypted."...

Nashville laptop theft may cost $1 million

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:26:42 +0100

..."Since state data breach disclosure laws went into effect a few years ago, the theft of an unencrypted laptop computer can become a major problem for any organization that stores sensitive data."...

U.K. politicians want losing data to be a crime

Fri, 4 Jan 2008 10:45:43 +0100

"A committee of MPs has called for tougher criminal penalties for data security breaches as incidents where the government or contractors have lost people's personal data continue to come to light."...

Personal Information record losses reach new heights

Thu, 3 Jan 2008 09:30:33 +0100

"More than 120 million people in the U.S. had personal data exposed in 2007 as identity theft reached record heights. That's according to research from the nonprofit organization the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) which reported 446 separate breaches exposing 128 million records."...

Government betrayed people's trust

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:02:28 +0100

"The chancellor admits that the government betrayed the trust of citizens when it lost the personal details of 25 million people."...

U.K. agency loses sensitive data on 25m people

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:22:43 +0100

"The head of HM Revenue & Customs, the United Kingdom's tax agency, resigned on Tuesday, taking responsibility for a massive data leak that potentially put the sensitive personal details of 25 million people at risk"...

Doctors may be fined for losing laptops

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:52:39 +0100

"The UK Information Commissioner has told public figures such as doctors that they face fines if they lose personal data belonging to people in their care. And that includes if their laptop is pinched and they are found to have been negligent"...

E-Mail privacy to disappear?

Fri, 2 Nov 2007 16:40:21 +0100

From SecurityFocus:
"What is important in this case is not the ultimate resolution of that narrow issue, but the position that the United States government is taking on the entire issue of electronic privacy. That position, if accepted, may mean that the government can read anybody's e-mail at any time without a warrant."...

Theft of Home Depot laptop puts 10,000 at risk

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:49:44 +0100

"Home Depot on Wednesday confirmed a company laptop was stolen that contains personal information about approximately 10,000 employees of the do-it-yourself retailing giant."...

Nevada Law Mandates Encryption of Electronically transmitted Person Information

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:43:24 +0100

"Even though a company has not experienced an unauthorized access or acquisition of its customer information (and thus has not been subject to Nevada?s breach notification law), in 2008 merely transmitting customer information in an unencrypted format may violate a separate Nevada data security law.

Nevada has enacted a data security law that mandates encryption for the transmission of personal information (see Nev. Rev. Stat. § 597.970 (2005)). Specifically, the Nevada encryption statute generally prohibits a business in Nevada from transferring ?any personal information of a customer through an electronic transmission,? except via facsimile, ?unless the business uses encryption to ensure the security of electronic transmission.?[1] The Nevada encryption law goes into effect on October 1, 2008."...

Hacker exposes embassies' e-mail

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:28:16 +0100

"A Swedish security expert released last week the addresses and passwords for 100 e-mail accounts, claiming that he has uncovered a flaw that exposes more than a thousand sensitive e-mail accounts at government agencies, such as embassies, and corporations."...

TJX estimates breach costs at $118 million

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 17:27:38 +0100

"Retail giant TJX Companies announced on Tuesday that it would take a $118 million charge to pay for the costs and potential liability stemming from the earlier theft of some 45.6 million credit and debit accounts."...

Los Alamos nuclear lab loses more data

Tue, 7 Aug 2007 17:25:35 +0100

"The error-prone Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory has inadvertently released highly classified nuclear weapons material again, this time by e-mail."...

President's Warrantless Wiretapping Powers Extended

Mon, 6 Aug 2007 17:24:39 +0100

"Bush promoted the new law to deal with limitations and criticisms of intelligence agencies' activities since 2001."...

Beware of Tera theft

Tue, 12 Jun 2007 17:21:16 +0100

"I performed a security audit on a company in the mid '90s. I cheated, but it?s all about asymmetry, so I figured cheating was fair. The bad guys cheat and I was looking to emulate them, not make my clients feel good about themselves."...