Laptop theft compromises Hotels.com customer data
Sensitive information on nearly a quarter million people was exposed
Stolen Fidelity computer raises privacy fears
Laptop contained sensitive data on nearly 200,000 retirement accounts
Nationwide Building Society, a U.K. financial services provider, has been fined $1.9 million after a laptop containing sensitive customer data was stolen from an employee.
Mercantile Bankshares Corp. said late Friday that a laptop computer containing personal information for more than 48,000 customers was stolen from an employee of subsidiary Mercantile Potomac Bank.
Ameriprise has agreed to a settlement with Massachusetts' regulatory office over damages from a laptop that was stolen from an employee's car in December 2005.
The missing laptop contained information on over 150,000 customers and 60,000 advisors to the financial services firm
Upscale retailer Neiman Marcus Group Inc. acknowledged this week that sensitive information on up to 160,000 current and former employees was housed on a laptop stolen from one of its consultants.
Gap Inc. announced Friday that a laptop containing the personal information of about 800,000 job applicants was stolen from the offices of one of its vendors that manages data for the company.
Federal investigators are frantically trying to determine what happened to a missing laptop computer that contains sensitive data on as many as 100 Drug Enforcement Administration investigations around the country, including a wealth of information about many of the agency?s confidential informants,
Representatives of the University of California, Los Angeles, are warning 145,000 blood donors they could be at risk for identity theft due to a stolen university laptop.
A state college in Denver believes it may have lost sensitive information on more than 93,000 students after one of the school?s laptop computers was stolen from an employee?s home late last month.