The auditor is as yet unnamed, but Petco Animal Supplies notified over 500 employees that laptops stolen from their auditor’s office the weekend of May 18 -20 contained their SSN and some 401(k) information. The theft occurred in San Diego. It is not clear why it took the auditor over one month to notify them….
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Ca: Pension data of former city workers stolen
CBC News reports: A stolen hard drive containing pension data for about 800 former City of Ottawa employees will likely never be retrieved, according to the company that was handling the information. New York-based Towers Watson notified the city of the breach after the hard drive disappeared from an office in the Philippines. Towers Watson…
OSU notifying individuals of data security breach
Joce DeWitt reports: Oregon State Police currently are investigating a security breach by a vendor who, while under contract to Oregon State University, copied information from a check register data base without permission. The action could have compromised the private information of 21,000 students and employees who were associated with OSU between 1996 and 2009….
AU: Did Stay Smart Online’s contractor lose your data?
Oops. A follower on Twitter DM’d me a link to this breach notification from Stay Smart Online, an initiative of the AU government: Notification of Subscriber Data Loss Dear Subscriber We are writing to notify you that the Department has been advised by a former external contractor that a DVD which included information provided by…
BC Hydro asks customers to check bills after online security breach
Michael Mui reports: BC Hydro is asking its online credit-card customers to check their bills after a security breach was detected last week. Corporation spokeswoman Jennifer Young said the breach — which involved credit card information not being properly encrypted — has been corrected, but urges those who paid online with a credit card in…
Update: Laptop holding PERA data stolen from auditor’s pickup at hotel lot
We should have known or at least guessed. Trip Jennings provides additional background on the Public Employees Retirement Association of New Mexico breach reported previously on this blog. Parked at a Clovis Comfort Inn & Suites, the 2008 white Ford F350 pickup must have seemed an inviting target. Inside the truck’s cab were two laptop…