Privacy group files FTC complaint against AOL
The World Privacy Forum has filed a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) complaint against AOL, saying the company violated its own privacy policy by releasing the search records from hundreds of thousands of its members. The World Privacy Forum, a privacy adv...
Data theft may hurt workers
Chevron may have pocketed record profits of $4.35 billion in the most recent quarter, but that wasn"t enough to protect the names and Social Security numbers of potentially tens of thousands of employees. The San Ramon oil giant sent an e-mail to U.S. wo...
Chain reports stolen laptop to employees
About 1,200 employees at Williams-Sonoma may be at risk of identify theft after a laptop computer containing personal information was stolen from an auditor. The San Francisco home-furnishing chain sent an e-mail to current and former employees earlier t...
Transportation Dept. Reveals 2nd Laptop Theft in Fla. Office
The inspector general"s office at the Department of Transportation disclosed yesterday the theft of another laptop from one of its agents in Florida, the second such report in less than a week. Barbara L. Barnet, the special agent in charge of the Miami o...
Second-Hand Drives Yield First-Class Data
If you think stolen laptops are a threat to your organization, you"d better double-check the PCs and hard drives you"ve sold, trashed, or given away. In a newly-published study of more than 300 hard drives obtained in auctions and computer fairs all over ...
Unisys offers reward for stolen desktop PC
Unisys, the Veterans Affairs Department's Office of Inspector General and the FBI have announced a reward of as much as $50,000 for information leading to the recovery of a company desktop computer reported missing on Aug. 7 from Unisys headquarters in Res...
Thieves raid accounts of Dollar Tree customers
Using stolen personal identification and account numbers, thieves have withdrawn hundreds of thousands of dollars from the bank accounts of consumers who used debit cards at Dollar Tree stores in California and southern Oregon, police departments in the tw...