Security officials say computer drive lost at Portland airport
Federal Homeland Security officials say a computer storage device that may have held personal information on current and former employees has been lost. "We"re relatively confident that thing got scraped into the trash, and it"s gone," said Mike Irwin, fe...
Energy probes another data loss
The National Nuclear Security Administration is investigating the Energy Department to see whether the Los Alamos National Laboratory is complying with departmental security directives, according to a statement that NNSA Administrator Linton Brooks issued ...
Business data breaches found to be more costly than thought
A new study reports that data breaches may cost companies even more than previously thought. The Ponemon Institute released its annual study on the cost of data breaches and found that they cost companies on average $182 per compromised record. The insti...
IP Theft Up In First Half Of Year: Report
Counterfeits and intellectual piracy (IP) theft cost companies millions in the first half of 2006, according to a report released Tuesday. An estimated 760 copyright and trademark intellectual property thefts in 69 countries between January and June 2006...
T-Mobile reports ID-theft risk
A laptop containing the Social Security numbers and other personal information of T-Mobile USA Inc. employees recently disappeared, putting as many as 43,000 current and former workers at risk of identity theft. However, the company based in Bellevue, Wa...
Stolen laptop held personal data of thousands of Allina patients
A laptop computer containing the names and Social Security numbers of thousands of Allina Hospitals and Clinics obstetrics patients was stolen from a nurse"s car Oct. 8, prompting alerts this week from the health-care provider to the patients. Company sp...
At U.S. Borders, Laptops Have No Right to Privacy
A LOT of business travelers are walking around with laptops that contain private corporate information that their employers really do not want outsiders to see. Until recently, their biggest concern was that someone might steal the laptop. But now there's...