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The Information Commissioner's Office has fined two London councils over losses of unencrypted laptops containing sensitive data.
Ealing Council was fined £80,000, while London Borough of Hounslow Council was fined £70,000, after the two laptops were stolen from an employee of Ealing Council in a burglary in the spring of 2010. The devices contained the details of 958 Ealing Council clients and 698 Hounslow constituents, according to an Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) ruling published on Tuesday (PDF). One of the laptops was issued by Ealing, while the other was a personal laptop belonging to the employee. Both were password-protected, but not encrypted, despite this being forbidden by both councils.
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University of Connecticut officials are investigating the theft of a laptop computer from its West Hartford campus that contains the names and Social Security numbers of 10,174 applicants, many of whom were selected for consideration to attend the regional campus.
This is the second incident of a missing laptop with sensitive information made public this week. Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is investigating the theft of a laptop from the Yale School of Medicine that contained clinical health information for approximately 1,000 patients.
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A laptop computer containing the personal information of about 225,000 Oklahomans was stolen from a city home last week.
Oklahoma Housing Finance Agency officials said Wednesday that the names, Social Security numbers, tax identification numbers, birth dates and addresses of clients of the Section 8 Housing Voucher Program were on an employee’s laptop that was stolen in an April 22 burglary.
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A laptop stolen from a government contractor last month contained names, addresses and Social Security numbers of more than 207,000 U.S. Army reservists, Krebsonsecurity.com has learned.
The U.S. Army Reserve Command began alerting affected reservists on May 7 via e-mail. Col. Jonathan Dahms, chief public affairs for the Army Reserve, said the personal data was contained on a CD-Rom in a laptop that was stolen from the Morrow, Ga. offices of Serco Inc., a government contractor based in Reston, Va.
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According to internetnews.com, more than 200,000 AvMed Health Plan subscribers may have been left vulnerable to identity theft after a pair of laptops were stolen from a conference room at the company's corporate headquarters. More >>> |
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