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NC: Checks with Buncombe school employee information stolen

Posted on July 16, 2014 by Dissent

Julie Ball reports: Buncombe County school officials have alerted more than 170 employees after an envelope containing checks with their names and Social Security numbers was stolen and some of the checks were cashed. The checks were mailed in March to ING, the financial services company, as contributions to supplemental retirement plans. Some employees contribute…

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CO: Stolen laptop causes security breach for DougCo schools

Posted on July 16, 2014 by Dissent

9News reports: A stolen laptop containing sensitive data has caused a security breach for Douglas County Schools. The district sent a letter to all of its employees recently stating the stolen computer contained some workers’ Social Security numbers and bank account information. Read more on 9News. And where was this laptop at the time of…

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OH: Laptop with sensitive information stolen from Summit County Courthouse

Posted on July 15, 2014 by Dissent

Adam Ferrise reports: Someone stole a laptop computer and a flash drive Thursday from a court reporter’s office inside the Summit County Courthouse. The laptop and flash drive contained sensitive information about ongoing court cases, Summit County Sheriff Inspector Bill Holland said. Holland declined to specify what the computer contained or what cases because it…

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UK: Fine for car rental manager who sold customer details to claims company

Posted on July 14, 2014 by Dissent

A former rogue manager at a Merseyside branch of the car rental company Enterprise Rent-A-Car has been prosecuted by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) after unlawfully stealing the records of almost two thousand customers before selling them to a claims management company. Appearing at Wirral Magistrates Court today, 29 year-old Stephen Siddell was prosecuted under…

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SC: OCtech laptop with student data stolen

Posted on July 14, 2014 by Dissent

Dale Linder-Altman reports: A laptop containing student and employee information was stolen from an Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College staff member’s office on Monday. The computer contained files with the names, birth dates and Social Security numbers of about 20,000 former and current students and faculty members dating back six or seven years, according to President Dr….

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Watermark Retirement Communities suffers laptop theft

Posted on July 4, 2014 by Dissent

Dave Lewis’s head is exploding. Understandably. Not only did Watermark Retirement Communities, Inc. fail to adequately secure customers’ personal information – including their date of birth and Social Security numbers- but they pulled out the old chestnuts of “the laptop was password protected” and “the thieves just likely wanted the hardware” pseudo-reassurances. Davis writes: From…

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