Friday, October 16th, 2009
Unless the name following your Doctor title is House, Who, Doom, Pepper or Zhivago, there might be a chance your confidential records were one of 800,000 records contained on a laptop that was recently stolen.
The laptop, which was owned by a Blue Cross and Blue Shield employee in Chicago, ...
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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
Ohio State University found itself mailing out 18,000 letters over the holidays informing some of their students that their names and social security numbers could have fallen into the wrong hands. Not exactly what I want to hear after the holidays.
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Friday, December 19th, 2008
In Clarksville, Tenn. two computers containing the information of more than 750 students were stolen today. When Myra George entered the Austin Peay State University office building she realized that her computers as well as one other was missing. All the wires and plugs were ripped from the walls and ...
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Sunday, November 9th, 2008
One of the largest pharmacy prescription processors announced Thursday that it’s being threatened by extortionist and if they don’t meet their payment demands the extortionist are going to release the information of millions of Americans.
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
3,300 people who had been charged with minor drug and alcohol offences are left open to identity theft when their personal information was left unsecured on a website for 11 days. The information was available from late September to early October according to officials.
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
A 15 year old boy has been arrested after he accessed a database that had 250 names and personal information of the past and present Shenendehowa transportation employees. The boy was able to use his student password to access the information.
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
The Fresno police department are looking for the people who broken into the KRM building and stole some computers. One of the computers,a laptop, had very sensitive information on it. The laptop had personal information on almost 5,700 city employees. The information on the computer dates back to 1973.
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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
Hospital patients of Mary Washington Hospital in Fredericksburg, VA have been exposed to Identity theft. A man was using the hospital's online registration system when he accidentally found the files of 803 patients. The hospital is claiming that the data breach is an anomaly and that the man was the ...
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Sunday, October 19th, 2008
Boston College in March 2005 had to send letters to 100,000 alumni to inform them that a server of theirs had been hacked and that they were subject to identity theft. The server that was locked in a server closet in one of the computer labs held the records of ...
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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
The computer was stolen from the car that was parked in down town Charleston. The police think that the computer wasn't stolen for the use of the data but they are still concerned about the lost information. The information that was on the laptop is password protected but this will ...
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Friday, September 26th, 2008
There was a security breach at the Sunrise insurance agency in Arizona that has the potential to expose hundreds of people to identity theft. One of the agents that worked at the Sunrise insurance agency, by the name of Lisa Ro Grant, stole the information of customers to open credit-card ...
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