Cory Smith reports: A youth football team from Dallas was celebrating its victory in a weekend tournament Sunday when a thief broke into their van in San Antonio. […] The thieves stole thousands of dollars worth of equipment and electronics. The players’ birth certificates were also stolen. “That’s what we’re most worried about, the birth certificates,”…
Category: Theft
How sweet it isn’t: Godiva notifies employees that stolen laptop held their data
Godiva Choclatier is notifying an undisclosed number of employees that their personal information was on a laptop stolen from a human resources employee’s car: On October 16, 2014, we learned that a suitcase was stolen from a rental car that a human resources employee was using to visit Godiva’s retail stores that day. The suitcase contained the employee’s…
Ca: Stolen laptops had no North Saanich taxpayer info; privacy probe underway
Katie DeRosa reports: B.C.’s information and privacy commissioner is investigating whether the theft of two laptops from North Saanich municipal offices constitutes a privacy breach. The laptops of chief administrative officer Rob Buchan and manager of corporate services Curt Kingsley were stolen sometime between late Saturday, after the municipal election ended, and early Monday. Sidney/North…
Personal information for hundreds of people exposed after break in at apartment office
Jennifer Bauer reports: The personal information of hundreds of renters was exposed after crooks broke into an apartment complex front office. The break-in happened at the Carrington of Champion Forest apartments in the 13000 block of Cutten Road back in August but one family told Local 2 they are still dealing with the fallout several…
How to get me to definitely not remove a link. Fsck off, LinkRemovalHelp.com.
If you’re going to hire a firm for SEO optimization or to help with negative reports about your firm, I hope you hire a good one. From my inbox (you may have to read it more than once to really get the full flavor): From: “Link Removal” <inkremoval@linkremovalhelp.com> Subject: Action Required: Penalized Google Domain Date: Sun, November 16,…
Bits ‘n pieces
Add Alliance Workplace Solutions to the too-long list of companies who have reported laptops with personal information stolen from an employee’s car. Anderson & Murison report that the names, addresses, dates of birth, and driver’s license numbers of propsective insureds were exposed online between June 2014 and July 18th due to the installation of an additional firewall (ironic,…