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Cardinal Health notifies employees and applicants of missing laptop

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Dissent

When a good samaritan contacted Ohio-based Cardinal Health in mid-June to tell them that a used laptop purchased on eBay contained company information, Cardinal Health recovered the laptop and began to investigate. Under their policies, data on decommissioned computers are to be securely deleted by their IT department and then securely destroyed by a vendor….

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Confidential client data stolen from Guam financial firm

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Dissent

Nick Delgado reports: Advisors Unlimited controls at least $25 million in assets for their 1,000 clients.  And according to company president Frank Salas, their Hagatna office was burglarized on September 11.  Salas says several miscellaneous items were stolen, but the most important was an external hard drive containing confidential client information including financial and personal…

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TX: Personal info stolen from 7,250 associated with Rice U.

Posted on September 14, 2010 by Dissent

KTRK reports: Houston police are investigating the theft of personal information of more than 7,000 people associated with Rice University. The university says a device containing information involving about 7,250 Rice faculty and staff, along with some students and retirees, was recently stolen. One of the files contained a list of Rice employees and students…

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Point-of-sale machines a growing magnet for identity thieves

Posted on September 13, 2010 by Dissent

Laura Baziak reports that theft of POS touch screens is increasing in Canada as thieves look for an easy way to get any card data stored on the device: …. Farahbakhchian said theft of all point-of-sale machines has been a steady problem in B.C. for the past three years. He said he hasn’t seen a…

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California hospital fined $250k for tardy breach notice to state (updated)

Posted on September 9, 2010 by Dissent

If you’re supposed to report a breach to the state of  California, you’d darn well better report it in a timely fashion.   HealthLeaders Media reports that Lucile Salter Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University has been fined $250,000 by the California Department of Public Health  for failing to report a patient records breach <del>by April 23</del>.  The…

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NY: Computer stolen with students’ information

Posted on September 7, 2010 by Dissent

Jim Dolan of ABC reports: This school year is getting off to a bit of a rough start for thousands of CUNY [City University of New York] students. More than 7,000 of them received letters saying their names and Social Security numbers had been stolen. Now, there is growing concern about overall security at the…

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