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InternetNews April 23, 2010	Laptop Theft Exposes Data on 3,500 Patients Some people don't seem to learn. The latest lost laptop comes to you courtesy of a Massachusetts-based neurosurgeon whose unencrypted laptop was stolen, putting more than 3,500 patients' most sensitive data at risk.
InternetNews August 5, 2010	Another Laptop Theft Exposes 21K Patients' Data Philadelphia's Thomas Jefferson University Hospital is in the process of notifying more than 21,000 patients that a stolen laptop has exposed some of their most sensitive personal information.
InternetNews May 17, 2010	Data Breach Tags N.M. Medicaid Patients Nearly 10,000 participants in New Mexico's Medicaid program had their personal information compromised after a car with a laptop in the trunk was stolen in Chicago.
InternetNews November 6, 2009	Laptop Heist Exposes Doctors' Personal Data Another stolen laptop puts thousands of people's personal data at risk but this time it's the caregivers - not the patients - who are at risk.
InternetNews January 13, 2010	Your Laptop's Been Stolen. What Should You Do? Strategies abound for preventing or at least minimizing the impact of a stolen laptop.
InternetNews November 20, 2009	Health Net Loses 1.5 Million Medical Records Another external hard drive goes missing, exposing the medical records and Social Security numbers of thousands of patients.
InternetNews June 14, 2010	Lax Data Security Results in Heavy Fines Five California hospitals got an expensive reminder of just how serious the state is about protecting patients' sensitive data. Expect more of the same in the near future.
InternetNews January 9, 2007 Ed Sutherland	Retiree Data Lost in Laptop Theft Laptops are stolen from Manhattan-based Towers Perrin offices. Retirees are being urged to monitor credit records.
InternetNews October 26, 2009	Stolen Laptop Exposes 33,000 Patients' Data Laptop plucked from employee's car at Daytona Beach, Fla. medical center exposes potentially exposed thousands of patient IDs.
InternetNews September 27, 2006 Ed Sutherland	GE Employee Data Stolen From Laptop General Electric alerted 50,000 current and former employees that a stolen laptop held names and Social Security numbers.
InternetNews February 2, 2010	UCSF Patients Latest Data Breach Victims A laptop containing the personal information of more than 4,300 patients receiving care at the University of California, San Francisco medical school was stolen in November.
InternetNews December 14, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Boeing Grappling With Data Theft Hundreds of thousands at Boeing get free credit checks after yet another laptop slipped away. Is it enough to prevent ID theft?
Insurance & Technology March 10, 2010 Anthony O'Donnell	Thrivent Notifies Members of Breach of Unsecured Personal Information Laptop stolen from Pennsylvania office contained personal information, including name, address, social security number and health information.
InternetNews April 8, 2010	Unencrypted Patient Data Lost in Laptop Theft Once again, lost notebook PCs have exposed the data of thousands of health care patients.
InternetNews June 3, 2010	UofL Web Site Exposes Patients' Personal Info A doctor at the University of Louisville Hospital set up an internal Web site and data base to track and monitor kidney dialysis patients. The problem is the site wasn't password protected.
InternetNews November 17, 2009	Hacker Infiltrates MassMutual Database An unknown number of employee data records were compromised in latest insurance industry breach.
Insurance & Technology May 18, 2004 Paul McDougall	Laptop Theft Compromises Data GMAC Financial Services customers have personal data stolen.
InternetNews September 13, 2010	CCNY Student Data Exposed in Laptop Heist Some 7,000-plus students attending the City College of New York are learning that some of their most sensitive personal information was exposed when a school laptop was stolen last month.
InternetNews February 13, 2007 Ed Sutherland	FBI Laptops Make Most Wanted List Audit reports lost and stolen FBI laptops included computers in anti-terror and counter-spy programs.
InternetNews June 2, 2006 Clint Boulton	Hotels.com Warns Customers on Data Theft Hotel booking site Hotels.com has begun sending out letters to some 243,000 customers whose names and credit card numbers were on a laptop stolen from an employee of Ernst & Young, the accounting firm.
InternetNews January 9, 2007 Ed Sutherland	Hospitals Becoming Popular ID Theft Target 'Cancer patients are big money' for ID thieves, privacy expert warns.
InternetNews August 26, 2010	Applicants Alerted to UConn Data Breach More than 10,000 people who applied to the University of Connecticut between 2004 and 2010 are learning that a stolen laptop has exposed their contact information and Social Security numbers.
InternetNews May 5, 2010	Thousands of Kentucky Medical Records Lost A flash drive storing patient names, birth dates, admission and discharge dates, as well as insurance information has gone missing from a Kentucky psychiatric hospital.
InternetNews February 8, 2010	The Biggest Security Breaches of 2009 There were some spectacular data breaches last year. Here's some of the best, or worst, depending on your perspective.
InternetNews May 7, 2007 Roy Mark	TSA Admits 100,000 Employee Records Missing The Transportation Security Administration is missing a hard drive containing some 100,000 current and former employee payroll records.
CIO December 15, 2009 Kim S. Nash	Data Sharing That Benefits Customers At Children's Hospital Boston, sharing more data, securely, promises healthier, more satisfied patients.
InternetNews January 28, 2010	National Archives Breach Tags Ex-Clinton Staffers The National Archives and Records Administration is notifying hundreds of thousands of people that a hard drive storing their Social Security numbers and personal data has gone missing.
InternetNews April 24, 2009 Alex Goldman	Laptop Theft Loses 1M Social Security Numbers The Oklahoma Department of Human Services reported that a laptop was stolen from one of its employees. The cost of the loss is likely going to be sky-high.
InternetNews January 17, 2007 Ed Sutherland	Less Data, More Security Will data minimization be the key to enhancing data security? Experts say it's a trend to watch.
InternetNews June 22, 2006 Clint Boulton	Two FTC Laptops Stolen The Federal Trade Commission today said two if its attorneys' laptops containing the personal information of 110 people were stolen from a locked vehicle last week.
InternetNews April 5, 2007 Roy Mark	IRS Audits Self Into Data-Theft Hot Seat New audit finds IRS with 500 missing or stolen laptops, some with unencrypted taxpayer confidential information.
InternetNews June 30, 2006 Roy Mark	FBI Recovers Stolen VA Laptop Veterans Administration Secretary James Nicholson said Thursday his agency's infamous stolen laptop containing the personal records of 26.5 million veterans has been recovered.
Fast Company November 2008 Arianne Cohen	Lojack for Laptops Companies lose billions of dollars a year in hardware and data. Here's how the good guys try to get the stuff back.
InternetNews September 16, 2005 Tim Gray	Stolen University Laptop Recovered In San Francisco, authorities track down pilfered laptop that contained tens of thousands of student's personal data.
InternetNews September 22, 2006 Roy Mark	Where Have All The Laptops Gone? The Department of Commerce reports more than 1,000 computers are lost, stolen or missing.
InternetNews May 23, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner	MCI The Latest to Lose Employee Data Personal data on 16,500 former and current MCI employees may have been stolen.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2006 John Keller	Military Users Are Giving Second Thoughts to the Needs for Ruggedized Laptop and Notebook Computers U.S. military portable computer users have come to realize that laptop computers are repositories of often-irreplaceable and sensitive data, giving them reason to reconsider buying specially designed ruggedized laptops.
InternetNews May 18, 2007 Erin Joyce	Alcatel-Lucent Probing Loss of Employee Data Alcatel-Lucent is working with state, local and federal authorities in order to track down how and why the disk containing social security information on company retirees and their dependants was lost or stolen.
T.H.E. Journal April 2005 Philip Lombardi	Asset-Tracking Technology Helps Lockdown, Recover Laptops at Bryant University To better prepare students for technology adaptation, Bryant University in Smithfield, R.I., has initiated a program that outfits all incoming freshmen with new IBM notebooks for personal and educational use.
InternetNews September 13, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Dell Adds Encrypting Drive to Latitude Line Dell announced it would offer Seagate's encrypting hard drive as an option for its Latitude line of laptops to provide "the world's most secure notebooks."
Entrepreneur August 2007 Amanda C. Kooser	Safe Trip Encrypt, secure, and back-up! Prevention is the key when it comes to the security of your small business data and hardware while traveling.
The Motley Fool July 3, 2006 Tim Beyers	Give Veterans a Free Credit Check Score one for the Feds in the war against identity theft. A stolen laptop with vets' personal data is returned, but this isn't over.
InternetNews July 12, 2006 Roy Mark	Report Reveals VA Breach Specifics A new VA report claims the agency displayed lack of urgency in reporting data theft.
InternetNews September 17, 2010	Rice University Deals With New Data Breach A stolen device containing student and faculty data went missing, putting personal information including Social Security numbers and birth dates up for grabs.
InternetNews December 12, 2008 Andy Patrizio	Intel, Ericsson Aim For Better Laptop Security Instead of waiting for a laptop to connect to the Internet, a kill message can be sent via SMS. Finally, texting has a practical use.
InternetNews August 2, 2006 David Needle	Stakes Rise in Notebook Safety Increased mobility puts more data at risk, which has vendors scrambling.
InternetNews October 7, 2008 Richard Adhikari	GOP Laptop Stolen After Missouri Break-in Someone or a group of people broke into the Independence, Mo. Victory Office of the Missouri Republican Party last week and apparently made off with a laptop belonging to regional coordinator Brian Johnson.
InternetNews March 12, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Seagate Delivers Encrypting Hard Drive Seagate on Monday announced a partnership with ASI Computer Technologies to deliver laptops with encrypted hard drives. The advantage of these drives is if the notebook is lost or stolen, the data on the drive is inaccessible.
Investment Advisor March 1, 2011 Lewis Schiff	Protect Affluent Clients' Data -- and Privacy One mistake can break the trust you've established with hundreds of clients.
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