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Hundreds of Thousands of Laptops Lost at U.S. Airports Annually

2008-07-04 08:20:38 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...laptops lost each year, according to the Ponemon Institute survey released Monday. Laptops are most commonly lost at security checkpoints, according to the survey. Close to 10,278 laptops are reported lost every week at 36 of the largest U.S. airports, and 65 percent of those laptops are not reclaimed, the survey said. Around 2,000 laptops...
 
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UTUIA laptops are missing after shipment

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2008-06-16 09:37:36 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...laptops may contain sensitive personal information belonging to UTUIA policyholders Reference URL New Hampshire State Attorney General breach notification Report Credit The New Hampshire State Attorney General Response From the online source cited above We are writing to inform you of a recent security incident involving UTUIA,...
 
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Lost Bank of Ireland laptops affect roughly 10,000 customers

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2008-04-22 09:35:39 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...laptops containing the personal details of 10,000 Bank of Ireland customers have been stolen, the bank confirmed Monday Ireland's second-largest bank made the admission after the chief regulator, Data Protection Commissioner Billy Hawkes, told Irish broadcasters RTE he had been informed of the lost customers' data only last Friday Bank of...
 
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Two stolen Saks Incorporated laptops contained sensitive information

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2008-05-11 21:28:38 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...laptops were stolen. Two of the stolen laptops contained several files that included customer names, addresses, Saks Fifth Avenue credit card account numbers, and/or Saks Fifth Avenue/MasterCard co-branded credit card account numbers Reference URL New Hampshire State Attorney General breach notification Report Credit The New Hampshire State...
 
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2% of all laptops sold every year are stolen from airports?

2008-07-01 16:58:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...laptops lost each year, according to the Ponemon Institute survey released Monday. Laptops are most commonly lost at security checkpoints, according to the survey Over 630K laptops lost each year just within airports! From IDC's Quarterly PC tracker (Dec 2007) we see that over 31M laptops were projected to be sold in 2007. This means that...
 
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Five stolen Florida Department of Children and Families laptops

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2008-01-04 10:12:20 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...laptops were stolen by someone who had legitimate access to the office (had keys) or that these laptops were stolen during business hours. You would think that it would be hard to walk out during business hours with five laptops the Florida Department of Children and Families is just now notifying about 1,200 day-care providers that their...
 
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Like Taking Laptops from a Baby

2007-11-01 13:29:00 by Allen Baranov, CISSP in Security Thoughts
 
...laptops is a worldwide phenomenon It also seems that the controls put in place do not help An article on tech.blorge.com reports that Eric Almly is believed to have stolen 130 laptops from 24 different companies All of these companies have the same physical security barriers that most companies do - card machines, cameras, etc. The guy...
 
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U.S. Customs Seizing Laptops

2008-02-12 12:23:17 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...laptops of people entering the country. But this is very mainstream: Today, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Asian Law Caucus, two civil liberties groups in San Francisco, plan to file a lawsuit to force the government to disclose its policies on border searches, including which rules govern the seizing and copying of the contents of...
 
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Four stolen laptops at the Eastern School District

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2008-02-21 16:37:38 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...laptops contained personal information belonging to students bussing to and from schools in the district Reference URL Eastern School District Media Release CBC News online story Report Credit Mary Tucker, Eastern School District Response From the online sources cited above On Sunday, February 17, 2008 it was discovered that four laptop...
 
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State Department Loses Hundreds of Laptops

2008-05-06 12:21:07 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
Oops : As many as 400 of the unaccounted for laptops belong to the departments Anti-Terrorism Assistance Program, according to officials familiar with the findings Bet you anything those laptops weren't encrypted
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