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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 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 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 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 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 November 20, 2009	Health Net Loses 1.5 Million Medical Records Another external hard drive goes missing, exposing the medical records and Social Security numbers of thousands of patients.
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 November 11, 2010	Data Breaches Cost Hospitals $6B A Year: Study Ponemon Institute report finds that healthcare organizations suffer an average of 2.4 data breaches a year, costing in excess of $2 million per incident.
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.
BusinessWeek April 8, 2010 Margaret Collins	Stealing Your Identity for Liposuction Crooks are using pilfered data to charge health care - from cosmetic surgery to emergency room visits.
InternetNews June 2, 2006 Clint Boulton	Hotels.com Warns Customers on Data Theft Hotel booking site Hotels.com has begun sending out letters to some 243,000 customers whose names and credit card numbers were on a laptop stolen from an employee of Ernst & Young, the accounting firm.
InternetNews April 8, 2010	Unencrypted Patient Data Lost in Laptop Theft Once again, lost notebook PCs have exposed the data of thousands of health care patients.
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 15, 2010	Hard Drive Theft Nets Health Data of Thousands Breach of protocol leads to the potential loss of Kaiser Permanente patient data in California.
InternetNews March 11, 2005 Jim Wagner	New Service to Put ID Protection in Your Hands Amid a flurry of data theft issues, Intersections readies an in-depth service to police who's trying to use all your data. This can help you spot identity theft.
InternetNews June 14, 2010	Lax Data Security Results in Heavy Fines Five California hospitals got an expensive reminder of just how serious the state is about protecting patients' sensitive data. Expect more of the same in the near future.
InternetNews October 20, 2009	Privacy Still Dogs Electronic Health Records New study highlights security shortcomings with the ways medical facilities are digitizing patients' records.
InternetNews October 28, 2010	Patients' Medicaid Data Exposed in Breech Portable flash drive containing data from over 280,000 Medicaid recipients was misplaced.
Fast Company September 14, 2011 Emma Haak	Global E-Health Forum Protecting patients' medical information in the digital age is no easy feat.
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 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 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 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 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.
Insurance & Technology August 12, 2005 Gregg Keizer	ID Theft in Regulatory Spotlight The growing online menace of identity and data theft has resulted in the introduction of another bill to address the problem. The Identify Theft Protection Act is the 10th identity theft bill put into play this session.
PC World October 2003 Andrew Brandt	Privacy Watch: California Law Protects Us All From Security Breaches New identity theft statute likely to help consumers everywhere.
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.
Searcher November 2005 Carol Ebbinghouse	Another Phine Kettle of Phish: Identity Theft Prevention Ten things to do today to protect yourself against identity theft.
InternetNews March 2, 2009 Richard Adhikari	ID Theft Threat Grows With 1M Already Hit in '09 A new report shows identify theft is off to a rapid start this year - and the figures could be even worse than expected.
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 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.
BusinessWeek January 8, 2007	Diagnosis: Identity Theft For $60, a thief can buy your health records - and use them to get costly care. Guess who gets the bill.
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 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.
Managed Care November 2006 Ed Silverman	Loss of Protected Patient Information Real Danger for Health Care Plans There are plenty of ways that confidential data can escape managed care organizations, and the consequences can be major. Can you trust your employees?
InternetNews October 29, 2009	California Medicaid Members' Data Exposed Thousands of Orange County patients' on high alert after CDs go missing.
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.
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.
Wall Street & Technology October 26, 2005	Consumer Data At Risk Despite warnings and increased scrutiny by financial services firms, 16% of consumers have had their financial information stolen, 13% have experienced monetary loss because of the theft of their financial data and 12% have had their Social Security numbers stolen, according to a recent survey.
InternetNews December 2, 2009	Privacy Group Warns of Digital Health Records Patient Privacy Rights issues report card showing wide variations in privacy safeguards in electronic health offerings.
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.
Bank Systems & Technology December 1, 2005 Eileen Colkin Cuneo	Dealing With Data Theft After the Fact When a security breech occurs, a company handling it right can flip the negative into a positive and earn customers' respect and appreciation. If they handle it wrong, and the business will fight the stigma of being an untrustworthy organization indefinitely.
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 January 28, 2010	National Archives Breach Tags Ex-Clinton Staffers The National Archives and Records Administration is notifying hundreds of thousands of people that a hard drive storing their Social Security numbers and personal data has gone missing.
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.
Wall Street & Technology October 23, 2007 Melanie Rodier	How Are U.S. Businesses and Lawmakers Responding to Data Breaches? Nearly 77 million individuals have been affected by data breaches so far this year. But even after suffering a data breach, many businesses failed to implement encryption solutions or seek legal counsel.
The Motley Fool February 23, 2007 Mary Dalrymple	Hassled to the Maxx The identity theft saga involving T.J. Maxx continues: Consumers need to be on the lookout for evidence that their identity, credit card, or debit card information has slipped into the wrong hands.
Bank Systems & Technology November 6, 2008 Orla O'Sullivan	2008 Data Breaches: 30 Million and Counting Roughly 30 million consumers have had sensitive personal data stolen in the 552 reported data breaches so far in 2008.
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.
InternetNews May 26, 2005 Tim Gray	BofA Steps up Authenticity Plan Bank of America moved quickly to restore its reputation this week, announcing a new online authentication service it says will help prevent online fraud and identity theft.