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An IT manager of a Canadian direct marketing firm has been accused of absconding with a copy of the company's customer database. Affidavit filed with the British Columbia Supreme Court accuses Nick Belmonte, vice president of IT at C-W Group, of stealing a computer backup tape containing names and information about 3.2 million customers -- potentially worth more than $10 million. The tape also contained credit card and bank account information of more than 800,000 customers.

U.S. Army medical officials in southeast Germany waited nearly two months before notifying more than 6,000 beneficiaries of a possible security breach regarding their personal information stored on a lost laptop computer. Authorities know the names, Social Security numbers and health information of at least 26 individuals were stored on the laptop, according to a news release sent Monday from the U.S. Army Medical Department Activity,Bavaria.

Half of workers will use their privileged IT access rights or bribe the IT department to snoop around the network to get the insider track on who’s next to go! London 1st December 2008 - It would seem desperate times call for desperate measures as a survey released today shows that workers will do almost anything to keep their jobs – but at a cost to the employer!!

More than 59,000 employees of Luxottica Group may be at risk after a hacker made off with their personal information in the latest incident of a massive corporate data breach. Italy-based Luxottica Group S.p.A. owns the LensCrafters eyewear chain and is the world's largest designer, manufacturer and distributor of high-end eyewear -- including products bearing the Ray-Ban, Dolce & Gabbana, Donna Karan, Polo Ralph Lauren, Prada and Versace brands.

Starbucks Corp. confirmed Monday that a laptop containing private information on 97,000 employees was stolen Oct. 29. The information included names, addresses and Social Security numbers, according to an undated memo addressed to affected employees. "We are writing to inform you of a recent incident that may have involved a breach of your private information," said the memo, which was posted at Starbucksgossip.com and was verified as authentic by Starbucks spokeswoman Deb Trevino on Monday.

University of Florida officials have notified about 330,000 current and former dental patients that an unauthorized intruder recently accessed a College of Dentistry computer server storing their personal information. The breach was discovered October third while college information technology staff members were upgrading the server and found software had been installed on it remotely. It was just made public today.

Personal information of more than 4,500 students and professors at Seoul National University was leaked online and has been available to anonymous people. According to the school, its French literature department uploaded an article in May giving notice of mandatory reserve force training on its Web site. However, a Microsoft Excel file of 4,500 males subject to the training at the school was attached to it along with their names, mobile phone number, military serial number and birthday.

A state-owned laptop computer with personal information about 85,045 North Carolina residents was stolen last month in Atlanta, state officials announced today.

A laptop computer containing limited health information on 100,000 patients was stolen from an employee's car in September, Baylor Health Care System Inc. said Monday. A letter is being sent to the patients, including 7,400 patients whose Social Security numbers were stored on the computer. The data consisted of names of patients and medical codes relating to the treatment they received. The codes are a series of numbers requiring a medical code book to interpret, said Nikki Mitchell, a Baylor spokeswoman.