Anthony J. Machcinski reports: …. Owners of AutoCarry, a car transport business that has an office on 4250 West Side Avenue, reported that burglars broke into the office and stole the records of more than 100 customers Wednesday night, police said. Owners told police that the stolen documents contained credit card numbers, addresses and other…
Category: Theft
FEI Company joins the ranks of those who had PII on a stolen laptop
FEI Company has notified employees that a laptop stolen on August 29 contained their personal information. In a letter from their counsel to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office, the firm indicates that the laptop held employees’ names, Social Security numbers, taxpayer I.D. information, salary information, date of birth, home address, and basic employment information….
Ca: Bar and lounge workers warned of potential privacy breach (update1)
Jana G. Pruden reports: Hundreds of employees of the Oil City Hospitality Group are being warned that personal information such as social insurance numbers and birth dates has been “accessed and possibly compromised” after a break-in at the company’s head office this summer. The group owns a number of popular bars and lounges in Edmonton,…
KS: Salina businesses see high number of computer thefts
Last month I tweeted about a rash of burglaries where thieves were stealing computers from Salina, Kansas businesses. Samantha Anderson reports that there have been more burglaries since then: Two businesses had computer or computer parts stolen over the weekend. One of those businesses was American Family Insurance. […] Other businesses hit in the last…
Stolen Monterey Institute of International Studies laptop contained students’ SSNs
Monterey Institute of International Studies, a graduate school at Middlebury College in California, has been notifying students whose unencrypted names and Social Security numbers were on a laptop stolen during a burglary at an employee’s home. The letter, dated October 3, offers no explanation as to why the data weren’t encrypted, but offers those affected…
NC: Laptops stolen from Robeson elections board contained personal info of 71,000 voters
Ali Rockett reports that 71,000 registered voters were notified by letter dated September 12 that five laptops containing their personal information were stolen from the Robeson County Board of Elections sometime between July 18 and September 4. The unencrypted laptops had been kept in a padlocked room, but were removed during a time that a…