Leonie Woods reports: The privacy and financial records of millions of shareholders who use Computershare’s global share registry system were placed at risk this year when a Boston employee quit the company, allegedly taking with her thousands of pages of highly sensitive and confidential documents. [See UPDATE below]. The employee resigned in September last year…
Category: Theft
UK: Thief takes computer and cash from garage
Jamie Bowman reports: A Southport mechanic is counting the cost after a thief stole cash and a computer from his garage while he was busy working on a car. Gordon Mawdsley, the owner of the Autofix Centre on Shakespeare Street, said the impact on his business would be “massive”, following the theft of his new…
MN: Stolen Hard Drive Recovered
Mallory Peebles reports: A stolen hard drive belonging to the city of Waseca is safely recovered. The hard drive is recovered after Waseca police received a tip call about teens looking into cars. The juveniles were questioned and one voluntarily admitted to taking the hard drive from a vehicle last Monday. It contained personal information…
Maloney Properties reports laptop theft containing residents’ Social Security Numbers
Maloney Properties has seemingly joined the “stolen laptop” ranks. By letter dated October 28 to those affected, the Massachusetts-based firm reported that a laptop stolen on October 15 contained some limited resident housing data including unencrypted Social Security numbers. The firm explained that it was necessary to store SSN because of federal and state housing…
Aaron’s operations computer stolen during burglary, contained customers’ Social Security numbers
It never rains but it pours? I had never heard of Aaron’s until earlier this year when they were sued for allegedly installing spyware on rent-to-own computers. But now I see their name again – this time, on a breach notification to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office. According to the firm’s letter of October…
NJ: Warren County Community College Alerts Students Whose Social Security Numbers Were on Missing Laptop
On Tuesday, September 27, 2011, the College was notified that a password protected employee laptop that had been taken off campus the previous evening was missing. Believing that the computer could have been stolen, the employee contacted their local police department to investigate a possible theft. In addition, the College notified the NJ State Police…