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9:49 am on September 9, 2008 | By Meghan Whelan | In data breach, information security, laptop security, laptop theft |
- UK security expert asks, “Why bother holding up a bank when you can steal a laptop?” after Bank of Ireland and the Department of Social and Family Affairs expose personal information of over 500,000 people in separate laptop theft cases. (Sunday Business Post, September 7, 2008.)
- Erie County laptop stolen from a health facility in Buffalo, NY contained personal private information of county residents. (WBEN Buffalo, September 5, 2008)
- Laptop with personal data stolen from National Technical Institute for the Deaf. The data contained the names, birth dates and social security numbers of 12,700 applicants to the NTID and another 1,100 people at the Rochester Institute of Technology. (Democrat and Chronicle, August 31, 2008)
- Ohio school district laptop with student data stolen from Reynoldsburg school employee’s car. The breach affected 4,259 students enrolled in the district. (Columbus Dispatch, August 29, 2008)
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