Lawyers for Chart Industries, Inc. recently notified [pdf] the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that eight of Chart Industries’ laptops were stolen on the evening of July 23 from their corporate offices in Garfield Heights, Ohio. The theft was discovered the next morning and immediately reported to the police. Chart discovered the theft on Friday…
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Lockheed Martin: hard drive not totally wiped
Lockheed Martin recently notified some former or current employees that a hard drive that formerly belonged to them had been found for sale on eBay by academic researchers participating in a global research project. The researchers turned the drive over to the FBI when they found some employee data still readable on the drive. According…
Stolen NY Life Insurance laptop had customer info
For the second time in as many months, New York Life Insurance is notifying customers of a data breach. In the newest incident, a laptop containing unencrypted customer information was stolen from an employee’s vehicle in a “smash and grab.” In a somewhat unusual notification [pdf] to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office, NY Life…
Wells Fargo employee accused of accessing customers’ accounts
A Wells Fargo Bank employee working inside a bank call center was arrested Friday for accessing customer accounts and taking money out, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office. Ronita Prasad, 28, of Antelope gained access to customer accounts through a protected system without authorization. She used customer account access to pay her own debts, open…
Texas AG announces settlement with Cornerstone Fitness
As a follow-up on a breach previously reported here, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced that the state has reached an agreement with Cornerstone Fitness, L.L.C. that requires the fitness center to better protect its customers’ personal information. In February, the Attorney General charged Cornerstone with violating a Texas law that governs the disposal of…
Bits ‘n Pieces
Alpha Daye Bah was arrested last week on charges that he stole at least 20 customers’ data from an unnamed restaurant and passed it to co-conspirators. More. Jason Reed and Derek Edwards were arrested for conspiracy to commit identity theft. Following a — wait for it — traffic stop, the officers found stolen credit cards…