Kia Motors officials indicted over alleged technology leakage
SUWON, May 10 (Yonhap) -- Nine former and incumbent officials of Kia Motors, South Korea's No. 2 automaker, were indicted on charges of illegally transferring key carmaking technologies to China, the first such case ever brought to light, prosecutors said Thursday. The nine allegedly delivered 57 types of secret information, including a key car-assembling technology, via e-mail to a local consulting firm established by some of Kia's former workers, from last November until recently.
Laptop theft risk to M&S staff IDs
More than 20,000 staff at Marks & Spencer have been told they may be at risk of identity crime after a laptop computer was stolen, it has been reported. Read more: guardian.co.uk
TSA loses hard drive with personal info
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Transportation Security Administration has lost a computer hard drive containing Social Security numbers, bank data and payroll information for about 100,000 employees. Read more: myway
Stolen NHS laptop contains payroll data on 10K staff
A laptop computer holding personal and financial information on 10,000 NHS staff has been stolen from a hospital in Cornwall. The machine containing payroll data - including names, addresses and bank details - was stolen from the Royal Cornwall Hospitals trust, which hosts the payroll for NHS staff across the county. It was stolen from locked and alarmed premises in Truro, which were forcibly entered during the night on Monday 30 April or in the early hours of Tuesday 1 May.
Union allegations spark J.P. Morgan probe of alleged data breach
New York, NY (AHN) - J.P. Morgan Chase has started a probe into allegations by a large workers union that documents containing financial information of its customers has been accidentally thrown in the trash in five of its branch offices in New York. Read more: allheadlinenews.com
JP Morgan client data loss
JP Morgan Chase has alerted thousands of its Chicago-area millionaire clients, as well as some of its own employees, that it cannot locate a computer tape containing their account information and Social Security numbers. Read more: financialnews-us.com
Caterpillar says employee data stolen
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) - Caterpillar Inc. said late Friday that a laptop computer containing personal data on employees was stolen from a benefits consultant that works with the company. Read more: wtopnews.com
Game programmers suspected of stealing code worth billion USD
Police are investigating a suspected theft of software code for online game "Lineage III" which is being developed by Korea's largest game maker NCsoft. Read more: english.chosun.com
Neiman says employee data stolen
Computer equipment containing files with sensitive information of nearly 160,000 current and former employees of the Neiman Marcus Group has been stolen, the company said Tuesday. Read more: wfaa.com
Lost disc puts 2.9M US residents at risk of ID theft
In the biggest loss ever of personal information compiled by state government, a computer disk containing data on 2.9 million residents of the state of Georgia has been lost in shipping. The CD, which had been in the possession of contractor Affiliated Computer Services, held names, addresses, birth dates, and Medicaid numbers, in addition to the Social Security numbers, for Georgia residents enrolled in the state's Medicaid and PeachCare for Kids programs.
