Wright inquiry laptop is stolen
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A laptop containing confidential information linked to the inquiry into the murder of loyalist Billy Wright, is stolen.
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THIEVES have stolen 65 computers during a raid on a health trust, police said yesterday.   Dell PCs and laptops were seized from a container at the back of the premises in Ballymena, Co Antrim.
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The theft of a laptop containing Social Security numbers of Nashville, Tenn.-area voters is expected to cost local officials about $1 million as they roll out identity-theft protection to those affected.County officials say that thieves broke into Davidson County Election Commission offices on the weekend before Christmas, smashing a window with a rock and then making off with a $3,000 router, a digital camera, and a pair of Dell Latitude laptops containing names and Social Security numbers of all 337,000 registered voters in the county.County election officials began notifying residents of the breach on Jan. 2, and the local government is offering victims one year of free identity theft protection from Debix Identity Protection Network.Debix says that 25 to 35 percent of victims of this type of breach typically request this service. With the city paying Debix just under $10 per account, the price tag for the laptop theft is expected to be in the $1 million range.Since state data breach disclosure laws went into effect a few years ago, the theft of an unencrypted laptop computer can become a major problem for any organization that stores sensitive data.&quot;It is a very bad information-handling practice to keep sensitive information about individuals including their Social Security numbers on an unencrypted laptop or any other device that is removable,&quot; said Paul Stephens director of policy and advocacy with Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a privacy advocacy group that has tracked the exposure of 217 million records in the United States over the past three years.Laptop thefts have been the source of privacy breaches at AT&amp;T,&#160;The Gap, and the Chicago Public School system recently.The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County&#39;s IT services department is now working with the Commission to make changes to protect residents from this type of incident and has already come up with 19 recommendations, said Janel Lacy, a spokeswoman for Nashville Mayor Karl Dean.
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The theft of a laptop containing Social Security numbers of Nashville, Tennessee, area voters is expected to cost local officials about US$1 million as they roll out identity-theft protection to those affected.
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Ten years supply of applicants swiped from car Personal details of the 600,000 people who have applied to join the armed forces over the last ten years were stolen with an MoD laptop earlier this month, it was admitted late on Friday. The computer was stolen from the car of a junior naval officer, which was parked outside his house overnight in Edgbaston, Birmingham.â¦
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By Jim Provance, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio  Jun. 16--COLUMBUS -- A thief made away with a state government computer backup "storage device" containing the names and COLUMBUS numbers of more than 64,000 state employees, prompting Gov. Ted Strickland to issue an alert yesterday.
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Nine nicked laptops hanging on the wall A break-in at Middlesbrough Council has resulted in the loss of nine laptops containing sensitive case files on up to 63 vulnerable children.â¦
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The laptop of a security firm salesman was stolen yesterday at a major IT security conference in London. The portable computer belongs to identity management firm -- and sponsor for the event -- Netegrity, and
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The personal details of up to 600,000  people were lost when a Royal Navy officer's laptop was stolen  in the latest embarrassment to hit British Prime Minister  Gordon Brown.
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(InfoWorld) - The U.S. Commerce Department reported that 1,137 laptops have been lost or stolen since 2001, with 249 of them containing some degree of personal data. The department couldn't determine whose data may have been on the machines, of which 672 belonged to the Census Bureau. It wasn't aware of any data having being used improperly, it said Thursday. The findings are from a Commerce Department review covering 15 agencies that use a total of 30,000 laptops. It comes as businesses and governments try to tighten their control over mobile devices after several high-profile incidents concerning theÂ loss of sensitive data. The Census Bureau's laptops -- used for collecting census data in the field -- rarely contain data on more than 100 households, and the data can't be accessed by the surveyors, many of whom are temporary, hourly employees. the department said. However, the Census Bureau also lost 15 handheld computers used to gather survey data. As a result, the department is contacting 558 households. The risk of the data being misused was "extremely low," it said, since the data is encrypted and two passwords are required for access. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which falls under the Commerce Department, lost 325 laptops, three of which had personal data. One of the laptops was stolen after a fire at one of its buildings in Seattle, Washington. The machine contained addresses, birth dates and Social Security numbers for 146 employees, the department said. Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez said the agency plans toÂ strengthen accountability standards, encrypt data on all department laptops and implement two-factor authentication. U.S. government agencies have been stung by hardware losses in recent months. In May, aÂ laptop and external hard drive was stolenÂ from the home of a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs employee containingÂ data on 26.5 million veteransÂ and active-duty military personnel. The laptop was recovered, and two teenagers were arrested in June. Â
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A THIEF stole computer equipment from a car while it was stuck in traffic in Bedworth.  A group of youths walked past the car, which was in a queue of traffic in Mill Street, and one opened the rear door and took a briefcase from the back seat.
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The government has recovered the stolen laptop computer and hard drive containing sensitive data for up to 26.5 million veterans and military personnel, Veterans Affairs Secretary Jim Nicholson said Thursday.
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By NO BYLINE  A THIEF sneaked through an open kitchen window and made off with a laptop computer worth GBP 400 along with some clothing.   The culprit broke in to the home in Kirkfield West, Livingston between 7.45pm and 11.15pm on Wednesday.
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By Jason A. Kahl, Reading Eagle, Pa.  Feb. 28--Computers containing personal information on about 4,200 students and staff at Reading Area Community College have been stolen, leaving those people at risk of identity theft and financial fraud, officials said Tuesday.
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Just before boarding their US Airways flight from Salisbury, Md., back to Pittsburgh yesterday, Debbie and Rick Ireland spotted a piece of their luggage that had been lost since Dec. 26.
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SEPTEMBER 03, 2004  - The disappearance of a laptop hard drive in the California State University (CSU) system has triggered a year-old state law requiring anyone whose personal information might have been stolen to be notified.