HP, Symantec warn employees after laptop thefts

HP, Symantec warn employees after laptop thefts
By Robert McMillan , IDG News Service , 12/11/2008
Technology vendors Hewlett-Packard and Symantec are warning employees that their names and Social Security numbers may have recently fallen into criminal hands following two separate laptop thefts.
HP said Thursday that at least several thousand employee records were contained on a laptop [...]

Data Breaches at State, Local Agencies Expose Data about Millions

 

 
October 21, 2008 • by William Jackson
Data breaches at state and local government agencies exposed the personal information of nearly 3.8 million Americans in the first three quarters of this year, according to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse.
Most of the exposures came from a single incident in July at the Colorado Division of Motor Vehicles that [...]