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Laptop Stolen From Citizens Advice
News A laptop containing client information has been stolen from the car of an employee of Citizens Advice in Northern Ireland. The theft of this laptop is highly regrettable, but given that the potential always exists for the theft of data, we have...
[December 10, 2007, 14:24]
Stolen Hospital Laptop Recovered
Blog A laptop that was stolen from a Nottinghamshire hospital has been recovered by police, reports ITPro. The laptop contained data that included the names and addresses of hundreds of children, protected by just a single password -- which let's face...
[April 4, 2007, 13:00]
Stolen Nationwide Laptop Prompts FSA Probe
News The laptop was stolen from an employee's house in a burglary in August. Nationwide would not say how many customers' details were contained on the stolen laptop. The employee who had the laptop stolen may not have been acting in accordance with...
[November 13, 2006, 12:44]
Soldier's Unencrypted Laptop Stolen
Blog A soldier has had his personal laptop stolen while out for the night. Apparently, Royal Engineers Captain Luke Badger had his unencrypted personal laptop stolen while out for the night at the Troy club in London.
[February 13, 2008, 16:38]
MI5 Laptop Containing Top Secret Data Stolen
Talkback SOLUTION: use FBIdata.com made special laptop. This would be an ONLY solution available today for this kind of data-theft case. Sample available upon regit request. This will blow your mind. Bring any IT specialist (MI6, MI5, Hacker, your neighbor...
[September 1, 2006, 21:32]
MI5 Laptop Containing Top Secret Data Stolen
News According to reports, the laptop was stolen after being put on the floor at the platform. An MI5 agent has admitted losing a laptop notebook containing sensitive government information at Paddington train station earlier this month.
[March 24, 2000, 8:56]
County Council Hit By Laptop Theft
News Thousands of Worcestershire County Council employees have become victims of data theft after a laptop containing sensitive personnel information was stolen in a street robbery. The stolen laptop, which contained sensitive information relating to...
[February 28, 2007, 15:42]
Government Admits To 200 More Stolen Laptops
News The figures for phone, laptop and PDA loss and theft across government departments reveal the MoJ has had 135 laptops and 56 mobile phones stolen, with a further 34 laptops and 116 phones going missing since 2001.
[February 20, 2008, 7:13]
It's The Mobile Enterprise, Stupid
Talkback "A stolen laptop is an expense: a stolen laptop with direct access to the corporate LAN is a disaster" well its obvious a biometric authentication screen reader is needed, I have always taken my digits with me everywhere I went, so using them as a...
[February 16, 2005, 21:17]
Boeing Loses Another Laptop Holding Employee Info
News Personal information relating to thousands of workers at Boeing, the multinational aeroplane maker, has been lost after a laptop was stolen. The laptop was stolen in the US from the car of a Boeing employee during the first week of December, and...
[December 18, 2006, 11:17]
HP Employees' Data Compromised
News A laptop with information on almost 200,000 current and former HP employees was stolen last week, putting them at risk of identity fraud. Furthermore, the information requires a special application, which expired a day or so after the laptop was...
[March 23, 2006, 8:25]
Patient Details Lost After NHS Laptop Theft
News Patient records which link to images of individuals' retinas were held on a laptop stolen from a GP's surgery in Wales. Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust has admitted that a laptop computer was stolen from St Julian's GP surgery in Newport, Wales on 5...
[December 17, 2007, 15:25]
MoD Recovers Top-secret Laptop
News The Ministry of Defence recovered a stolen laptop containing top-secret details of a £250bn Anglo-US fighter plane project, a spokeswoman said Monday. A Ministry of Defence spokeswoman says that government does not believe that the laptop was...
[May 22, 2000, 14:06]
ID Theft: Should You Believe The Hype?
News A laptop had been stolen from the University of California at Berkeley in March, and stored on it was personal information on 98,369 graduate students or graduate-school applicants, including Hayes. The laptop was recovered in September, and police...
[October 25, 2005, 16:10]
Develop A Security Strategy For Mobile Working
News An employee's laptop is lost or stolen and thousands or even hundreds of thousands of the organisation's clients are at risk of identity theft because sensitive information, such as social security numbers or credit card numbers, was stored on the...
[July 19, 2006, 13:35]
Rising Trend In Portable Computer Thefts - A Veridicom Technology Backgrounder
White Papers Only a few weeks ago after a speech, Qualcomm CEO Irwin Jacobs' laptop full of company confidential information was stolen from a room packed with journalists - an incalculable loss. Laptop computer theft continues to dominate the headlines.
[January 13, 2004, 23:00]
Laptop Swiped At Security Show
News The laptop of a security firm salesman was stolen yesterday at a major IT security conference in London. The laptop bag was later discovered with all its contents except for the laptop. In a previous article on ZDNet UK, Girard gave these five...
[September 22, 2004, 12:15]
Businesses Address Laptop Data Theft
News An exclusive investigation by ZDNet UK's sister site silicon.com earlier this month revealed a sharp rise in the number of laptops stolen in the UK, while in recent months organisations such as Marks & Spencer, the Metropolitan Police, Nationwide...
[May 16, 2007, 11:56]
Support Grows For Thin-client Computing
News Neoware, a partner of Citrix, is one company producing pretty smart devices that look like a laptop, sound like a laptop and probably even smell like a laptop but cannot contain any of the data you'd normally find on your average lost or stolen...
[June 6, 2007, 16:38]
Marks & Spencer Loses 26,000 Staff Details
News The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has threatened the retail giant with prosecution after a laptop containing unencrypted data was stolen from a contractor in April 2007. The laptop was stolen from the home of the managing director of a...
[January 25, 2008, 16:32]
