Data lost on 650,000 credit card holders
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Personal information on about 650,000 customers of J.C. Penney and up to 100 other retailers could be compromised after a computer tape went missing.
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By BRIAN BERGSTEIN BOSTON - A new study that estimates how much digital information the world is generating (hint: a lot) finds that for the first time, there's not enough storage space to hold it all. Good thing we delete some stuff.
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By Douglass K. Daniel  The Commerce Department has lost 1,137 laptop computers since 2001, most of them assigned to the Census Bureau, officials said Thursday night.  The Census Bureau, the main collector of information about Americans, lost 672 computers.
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Photocopying wallet information pays off.
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A computer tape containing personal  data of 650,000 customers of about 230 retailers including J.C.  Penney Co  is missing, credit card issuer GE Money said  on Friday.
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Database administrator hustles info to marketeers Fidelity National Information Services, the major US financial processing company, said today a senior level database administrator at one of its subsidiaries stole 2.3 million consumer records containing bank account and credit card information as well as other personal information.â¦
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Thousands of credit card numbers and other personal data may have been compromised.
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The loss or theft of personal data such as credit card and Social Security numbers is soaring to unprecedented levels, and the trend isn't expected to turn around anytime soon as hackers stay a step ahead of security and laptops disappear with sensitive information.
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Here we go again. The Department of Veterans Affairs has disclosed that information on more than half a million individuals and about 1.3 million non-VA physicians -- both living and deceased -- is missing and may have been stolen. The information had been stored on a portable hard drive that was...
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Many 'contactless' credit cards can leak their owner's name and card number for reading at a distance.
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The loss or theft of personal data such as credit card and Social Security numbers soared to unprecedented levels in 2007
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Unencrypted disc lost in post Bank of Scotland (HBOS) is telling 62,000 customers they could be at risk of identity theft after it stuck an unencrypted disc in the ordinary post, which was subsequently lost.â¦
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Even more worried than Americans One in five (22 per cent) European businesses expect to have to cope with "major data loss" of some sort annually over the next five years compared to 10 per cent of their US counterparts.â¦
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By BRIAN BERGSTEIN BOSTON - A new study that estimates how much digital information is zipping around (hint: a lot) finds that for the first time, there's not enough storage space to hold it all. Good thing we delete some stuff.
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The personal details of 600,000 people have been lost after a laptop was stolen from Royal Navy officer
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Intruder gained access to database holding personal information for up to 600,000 elderly and disabled Californians.
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A leading internet credit card processor is under siege by a denial-of-service attack, slowing its servers and leaving many customers high and dry. By Noah Shachtman.