A spokesperson for the university sent me the following statement, dated December 7, on the recently disclosed breach involving the theft of a laptop from an employee’s car on November 10: Pepperdine University officials were notified that restricted information of current and former employees, including students, might have been compromised through a stolen University laptop…
Category: Theft
Unencrypted laptop stolen from Pepperdine University employee’s car contained personal info on 8,300
Whitney Irick reports: President Andrew K. Benton sent an email today informing the university community that a laptop computer belonging to an authorized university employee was stolen from that individual’s car. This laptop had been used extensively in work related to the IRS, “and it contained data dating back to 2008 involving as many as…
Disaster avoided by encryption? Yay….
I’m so used to reading news stories about thefts where data were not encrypted that my jaw still occasionally drops when it turns out the data were encrypted. Here’s a story like that from Lancashire in the U.K.: […] Eddie Sutton, Lancashire County Council’s assistant chief executive, said: “I can confirm that a number of…
In the blink of an eye (update1)
Radio New Zealand reports: The Tertiary Education Commission is worried about a potential privacy breach after a briefcase containing sensitive information on the performance of the nation’s academics was stolen from one of its members. The briefcase belonged to a member of the Commission’s performance-based research fund panel, which assesses research by university staff and…
More on the Wounded Warrior Project laptops theft
Back in September, I noted that a burglary at Wounded Warrior Project’s Jacksonville headquarters may have compromised some employees’ information. WWP’s notification to the Maryland Attorney General’s Office is now available online, and so we now have some additional details: Information on the stolen laptops included employees’ names, addresses, passport numbers, Social Security numbers, dates…
UK: Kind charity raided in break-in and computer stolen
Jonathan Collinson reports: A computer containing vital information needed to help deprived families in Liverpool was stolen from a children’s charity. Police officers were called to the Kind charity offices in Back Canning Street, in the city centre, to a report that a window had been broken and a computer stolen from inside Read more…