Missing laptop prompts Administaff to notify employees
Administaff, Inc. (NYSE:ASF), a leading provider of human resources services for small and medium-sized businesses, today announced that a company laptop computer containing personal information about individuals who were Administaff worksite employees during calendar year 2006 has been reported missing - read more: phx.corporate-ir.net
Now Pfizer employees' spouses suffer data compromise
Fourth security failure to touch Pfizer employees this year - read more: computerworld.com
NSA leaker hid documents in pantyhose, say officials
A young woman charged with leaking U.S. secrets to a news organization told FBI agents she was frustrated with her job as a government contractor when she tucked a classified report into her pantyhose and smuggled it out of a National Security Agency office in Georgia, according to court records, CBS news reports.
Laptop theft puts Gap Inc. job applicant data at risk
SAN FRANCISCO - Sept. 28, 2007 - Gap Inc. (NYSE: GPS) today announced that a laptop containing the personal information of certain job applicants was recently stolen from the offices of an experienced third-party vendor that manages job applicant data for Gap Inc. - read more: gapinc.com
Minnesota workers had information on stolen backup tape
More than 1.3 million individuals, businesses or other entities have been affected by the security breach - read more: columbusdispatch.com
GAO: VA at risk of another data breach
Weaknesses in the physical controls of laptops and other hardware at U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) facilities has put the agency in danger of suffering another data breach, according to the Government Accountability Office - read more: scmagazineus.com
NHS patient data sold on eBay
An NHS trust is investigating how one of its hard drives containing confidential information was sold online - read more: zdnet.co.uk
Connecticut says data on its money was stolen
Calling it an 'unfathomable' breach of security, Gov. M. Jodi Rell of Connecticut said yesterday that a computer backup tape stolen in June from a car in Ohio contained bank account and other sensitive financial data for nearly all Connecticut state agencies - read more: nytimes.com
TD Ameritrade was warned of possible data breach months ago
A data breach that exposed the names and contact information of the more than 6.2 million customers of TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. may have occurred as far back as a year ago - and possibly even earlier than that - read more: computerworld.com
TennCare provider loses patient information on thousands
67,000 TennCare enrollees at risk of identity theft after a courier service loses their personal information - read more: wate.com
