Signe Brewster reports: The Madison Police Department announced Monday that no sensitive information was accessed on a laptop computer stolen from an office in the City-County Building Friday. The results of forensic tests performed on the recovered laptop showed multiple unsuccessful attempts were made to log into the computer, which contained 300 to 500 employee…
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WI: Personal data was stored on laptop swiped from Madison city hall
Dean Mosiman reports: Madison officials and employees are complaining that Social Security numbers were stored on a laptop computer stolen from a city office Friday. The laptop was recovered this morning, but it’s unclear if sensitive information was stolen. Any official or employee — except those in the police, fire and transit departments — who…
NZ man finds US army files on MP3 player
A New Zealand man has found confidential United States military files on an MP3 player he bought at an op shop in the US. Chris Ogle, 29, from Whangarei, bought the player from an Oklahoma thrift shop for $NZ18 ($A14.50), and found the files when he hooked it up to his computer, TV One News…
AU: Spammers hack into Government jobs website
Asher Moses reports: The NSW Government website used to advertise public service jobs has been hacked into and the perpetrators have spammed the Government’s database of job seekers with phony vacancies in an effort to steal personal data and possibly to spread viruses. The Department of Commerce, which administers the jobs.nsw.gov.au site, refused to say…
UK: MoD admits 440 computer data devices have been lost or stolen
Ian Bruce reports: The Ministry of Defence admitted yesterday that 217 of its laptops, 47 desk-top computers, 80 hard drives and 96 memory sticks were lost or stolen during 2008, despite a high-profile security crackdown launched last summer. The latest figures mean more than 1640 of the department’s computers and other information devices have gone…
UK: Private Info Missing On Lost Disk
A good argument can be made not to count this as a breach, but the loss reminds us of the need to encrypt… A computer disk containing the details of 2,000 members of the British Council has been lost, it has been revealed. The details reportedly include names, national insurance numbers, salary and bank account…