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CT: Willimantic town employees’ information was on unattended laptop stolen from employee’s office

Posted on September 24, 2012 by Dissent

Alison Shea reports: Willimantic police are asking for the public’s help in recovering a laptop containing town employees’ information that was stolen from Town Hall a week ago. Police said in a release late Sunday that a town employee had left the laptop unattended in his office in Windham Town Hall from 10 a.m. to…

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UK: Investigation as foster worker’s laptop containing children’s details is stolen

Posted on September 17, 2012 by Dissent

Rory Reynolds and Ian Swanson report from Scotland: An investigation is under way after a laptop computer containing sensitive details on vulnerable children was stolen from a member of a fostering and adoption panel. Police are probing the theft of the device from the home of an independent consultant who conducts reviews of foster and…

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Stolen laptop contained data from Health Care for All and Boston Teacher’s Union

Posted on September 16, 2012 by Dissent

It just takes a moment. On July 17, an independent contractor for Database Designs Associates left his backpack in a relative’s nursing home room when he was asked by staff to step out for a minute. When he returned, the backpack was gone. In it was a laptop containing data from Health Care for All and…

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FL: Miami federal jury convicts man in murder of U.S. postal carrier in ID-theft scheme

Posted on September 14, 2012 by Dissent

We usually think of the financial or medical risks associated with ID theft.  But murder to engage in ID theft? Jay Weaver reports: In December 2010, Bruce Parton was murdered in broad daylight while doing a job he had enjoyed for 30 years: delivering the mail. On Thursday, a federal jury found a Miami-Dade man…

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30-plus laptop computers stolen from Jacksonville’s Wounded Warrior project HQ

Posted on September 14, 2012 by Dissent

Dan Scanlan reports: At least 33 laptop computers and iPads were stolen in late July from the Wounded Warrior Project’s third-floor office at 4899 Belfort Road in Jacksonville. They may contain personal information on “some, but not all of our former employees,” according to a letter sent out Sept. 7 by Wounded Warrior Executive Director…

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Emobile, Meteor plead guilty to data legislation breaches

Posted on September 10, 2012 by Dissent

RTÉ reports: Two telecoms companies have pleaded guilty to multiple breaches of data protection legislation at the Dublin District Court and have been ordered to pay a total of €30,000 to two charities. The charges follow the theft of two unencrypted laptops, containing personal and financial information of customers, from the office of Eircom Ltd…

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