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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 August 30, 2006 Clint Boulton	AT&T to Offer Credit Checks After Data Hack AT&T will pay for credit monitoring services after 19,000 credit card numbers were stolen.
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 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?
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 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 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 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 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.
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 May 22, 2006 Roy Mark	Thieves Bag Data on 26.5M Vets Personal data on more than 26 million veterans is at risk of identity theft after a Department of Veterans Affairs' employee's home was burglarized and the data stolen.
InternetNews June 23, 2006 Roy Mark	Another Government Security Breach According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, unknown hackers may have illegally accessed a USDA database containing the names, Social Security numbers and photos of current and former agency employees.
InternetNews August 7, 2006 Roy Mark	Teens Charged in VA Laptop Theft Maryland police arrested two teenagers Friday morning at a suburban Maryland McDonald's and charged them with the May theft of a Veterans Administration's laptop that resulted in the largest data breach in federal government history.
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.
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 May 23, 2006 Roy Mark	VA Data Breach Stirs Washington In the second-largest data breach on record -- and the biggest Social Security numbers breach ever - the Department of Veterans Affairs disclosed Monday approximately 26.5 million veterans are at risk of identity theft.
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 May 26, 2006 Clint Boulton	Sacred Heart Data Hacked Sacred Heart University became the latest school to fall victim to a computer hack, which exposed the personal information of as many as 135,000 students and alumni.
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 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 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 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 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.
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 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 January 9, 2007 Ed Sutherland	Hospitals Becoming Popular ID Theft Target 'Cancer patients are big money' for ID thieves, privacy expert warns.
InternetNews June 26, 2006 Roy Mark	Latest Breach Hits Navy The U.S. Navy is notifying as many as 28,000 in the latest government failure to protect personal data.
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 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.
Bank Systems & Technology July 12, 2007 Larry Greenemeier	Link Between Data Breaches And ID Theft Unclear, GAO Reports A U.S. Government Accountability Office report indicates that while the amount of information lost or stolen is disturbing, it's difficult to prove that these breaches lead to identity theft.
Insurance & Technology May 18, 2004 Paul McDougall	Laptop Theft Compromises Data GMAC Financial Services customers have personal data stolen.
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 August 2, 2006 David Needle	Stakes Rise in Notebook Safety Increased mobility puts more data at risk, which has vendors scrambling.
InternetNews December 4, 2009	Laptop Thief Nabs Hospital Patient Data It's the latest incident in which a lost or missing laptop leads to criminals gaining access to sensitive data.
InternetNews November 17, 2009	Hacker Infiltrates MassMutual Database An unknown number of employee data records were compromised in latest insurance industry breach.
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 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 March 29, 2005 Tim Gray	Another University Suffers Security Breach UC Berkeley joins a growing list of schools losing vital student information to hackers.
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.
Entrepreneur June 2005	It Figures 06/05 76% of employees say their companies' efforts to recognize employee achievements are... The average cost of a stolen laptop is... 24% of adults who read direct mail... etc.
InternetNews May 24, 2006 Roy Mark	House Panel Moves on Data Breach Bill With data breaches back in the news, national legislation begins to percolate.
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 October 10, 2008 Richard Adhikari	Alert Victim Helped Shell Nab Alleged Data Thief A call to the Texas Workforce Commission by a Shell Oil employee whose Social Security number had been stolen kicked off an investigation that led to the discovery of the alleged thief.
The Motley Fool May 24, 2006 Tim Beyers	Vets Back on the Front Line It's a different war this time. The battle began Tuesday with news that data on more than 26.5 million veterans had been stolen from the home of a worker with the Department of Veterans Affairs. Identity theft is a serious crime -- vets beware.
PC Magazine July 11, 2007 Cyrus Farivar	Closing the Loopholes on Data Theft Millions have had personal data, including credit card numbers, stolen this year. Congress is seeking to pass a stricter, nationwide law.
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 July 10, 2007 Roy Mark	Many Breaches, Few ID Thefts Data breaches are frequent, but evidence of actual identity theft resulting from the breaches is limited, according to a new report by the General Accountability Office.
Inc. May 2007 Daniel Akst	The Dangers of Identity Theft Entrepreneurs are especially vulnerable to identity fraud.
InternetNews August 3, 2010	Health Care Orgs Endure Data Breach Epidemic Hospitals, medical centers and physicians' offices have been responsible for a disproportionately large number of data breaches so far this year, according to one security study.
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.