Reba Lean reports: The Alaska Department of Education and Early Development has warned school districts across the state that information on thousands of students, including some from Fairbanks, was contained on a computer hard drive stolen in Juneau. The department sent a letter to all school districts, including Fairbanks, alerting local officials to information breach….
Category: Theft
Cord Blood Registry notifies 300,000 of stolen backup tapes (updated)
I first became aware of the following breach from DataLossDB.org. It was reported to them by one of those affected who also reported it on ScamSafe: ScamSafe appears to be the first to report a serious data breach at Cord Blood Registry (www.cordblood.com). No mention has been found of this breach in the news or…
DE: Personal information of 113 Beebe patients stolen (updated)
Officials have confirmed that personal information for 113 Beebe Medical Center patients was stolen from an employee’s vehicle in Florida. According to Beebe Vice President of Corporate Affairs Wally Hudson, the employee took home a financial statement with patients’ names and Medicare numbers, often the same as a social security number, with the intention of…
UK: Computer with details of hundreds of children stolen in youth club burglary
A computer containing the names, ages, addresses and medical conditions of hundreds of children has been stolen in a raid on a youth club.Details of up to 700 youths are stored on the computer belonging to Sparks Project in Courtway Road, Orchard Park, north Hull. Tony Fee, who launched the youth project in 2006, has…
AL: Pair busted with bag of credit cards
David Goodwin reports on the arrest of two low-tech ID thieves in Alabama: Rogers said he worked with Montgomery police to execute a search of Cudjoe’s home, where they found a potato chip bag containing 12 credit cards, none in their name, he said. He also found lists of the names, dates of birth and…
Swiss Prosecutor Releases Person In Credit Suisse Data Theft Case
Switzerland’s prosecutor said Thursday an undisclosed person arrested last month as part of an investigation into data allegedly stolen from Swiss bank Credit Suisse Group (CS) was released from custody. “Our investigation has advanced so well that we released the accused person from custody last Friday,” spokesman Jeannette Balmer said in an emailed statement. She…