Preventing Data Theft From A Stolen Laptop

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100,000 Students' Details Stolen in
Laptop Theft

100,000 Students' Details Stolen in
Laptop Theft 03/29/2005 06:33 AM
The personal details of almost 100,000 University of California students have been stolen - and it's all because one laptop was taken from one of the college's campuses. AP reports that the theft actually took place on March 11, but officials had waited until now to release details in the hope that the thief might be caught. That hasn't happened, raising fears of identity theft.

The laptop was stolen from UC Berkeley, wihch now plans to tell all the people affected - some 98,369, including current alumni, past applicants and graduate students - to check credit reports. However, the university's Maria Felde said there was no indication any of the data had been used illegally.

"The campus really regrets this happened and is taking steps to strengthen security in the future," Felde told AP. The university has set up a hotline on 1-800-372-5110, as well as a website to answer questions about the theft. It says: "At this time the campus has no evidence that personal data were actually retrieved or misused. However, in accordance with state law, UC Berkeley officials are making every reasonable effort to notify by mail and e-mail all 98,369 individuals whose names and Social Security numbers were on the computer and, as a precaution, suggest they consider placing a fraud alert on their credit reporting accounts."

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Anti Theft Product Helps Recover A
Stolen Laptop Computer

Anti Theft Product Helps Recover A
Stolen Laptop Computer 05/31/2004 02:00 PM
nTracker, from Synet is a new anti-theft laptop tracking, recovery and data protection system that installs on any laptop computer running Windows states Craig Crossman host of The Computer America Show and syndicated newspaper columnist. [PRWEB May 26, 2004]

Stolen Laptop Exposes Data of 100,000
(AP)

Stolen Laptop Exposes Data of 100,000
(AP) 03/28/2005 07:31 PM
AP - A thief has stolen a computer laptop containing personal information about nearly 100,000 University of California, Berkeley alumni, graduate students and past applicants, continuing a recent outbreak of security breakdowns that has illustrated society's growing vulnerability to identity theft.

Stolen laptop exposes data of 100,000

Stolen laptop exposes data of 100,000 03/28/2005 11:33 PM
San Jose Mercury News Mar 29 2005 3:47AM GMT

Stolen UC Berkeley laptop exposes
personal data of nearly 100,000

Stolen UC Berkeley laptop exposes
personal data of nearly 100,000 03/28/2005 11:39 PM

Laptop theft puts data of 98,000 at risk

Laptop theft puts data of 98,000 at risk 03/29/2005 04:43 PM
ZDNet Mar 29 2005 8:09PM GMT

Laptop theft exposes UC-Berkeley data

Laptop theft exposes UC-Berkeley data 03/29/2005 03:06 PM
San Jose Mercury News Mar 29 2005 6:09PM GMT

Laptop theft leaks data of 98,000 people

Laptop theft leaks data of 98,000 people 04/01/2005 03:37 AM
TechSpot Apr 1 2005 8:10AM GMT

Preventing ID Theft Can Cost You

Preventing ID Theft Can Cost You 05/22/2004 03:37 PM
CBS News May 22 2004 8:22PM GMT

Preventing iPod Theft With Software?

Preventing iPod Theft With Software? 04/01/2005 09:29 AM

Check IT List: Preventing identity theft

Check IT List: Preventing identity theft 12/28/2004 01:09 AM
Michael Gregg of SearchSmallBizIT.com writes: Businesses are increasingly tasked with processing more and more amounts of electronic information. This can be especially burdening on small and medium-sized businesses because of their size and manpower. If they fail to handle this information properly, they may be just one click away from disaster. It’s a valid possibility that the organization could be held liable if personal data is disclosed to an unauthorized person. The business could also…

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Stolen Title Tag - Is this theft?

Stolen Title Tag - Is this theft? 12/15/2003 10:28 AM
An age old question that every copyright or trademark holder asks at some point in their web career.

Preventing Data Corruption Due to User
Interface Bugs

Preventing Data Corruption Due to User
Interface Bugs 07/24/2004 01:08 AM

There's a standard way of handling object updates via HTML forms. Generally speaking, when the user selects an object to edit, you populate an HTML form with all the data from the object, post all these fields when the user presses Submit, then update all the fields of the record with the data in the HTTP request.

So, if I'm going to edit an article, the HTML form contains all the article properties, and — even if I just change one — the SQL that results after I press Submit rewrites ALL the fields with what it receives in the request.

This has always made me just a little nervous because is assumes that the request is perfectly accurate — that it accurately represents what we want the object to become. But is this always the case?

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Laptop with 98,000 names stolen at
UC-Berkeley

Laptop with 98,000 names stolen at
UC-Berkeley 03/29/2005 01:59 PM
Officials at the University of California, Berkeley, are notifying more than 98,000 graduate students and applicants about the theft of a laptop computer containing their names, Social Security numbers and other personal data.

BankRI customer information stolen along
with laptop

BankRI customer information stolen along
with laptop 12/19/2003 05:11 PM
A laptop owned by Fiserv with the names, addresses and Social Security numbers of 43,000 BankRI customers has been reported stolen.

Laptop stolen at London security event

Laptop stolen at London security event 09/23/2004 11:51 PM

UCLA says stolen computer puts 145,000
blood donors at theft risk

UCLA says stolen computer puts 145,000
blood donors at theft risk 06/10/2004 03:06 AM
San Francisco Chronicle Jun 10 2004 7:47AM GMT

Notes and Tips: Laptop Theft Threats

Notes and Tips: Laptop Theft Threats 04/06/2005 12:19 PM
Here are a few more suggestions about laptop theft deterrents and responses.

UCLA laptop theft exposes ID info

UCLA laptop theft exposes ID info 06/10/2004 04:02 PM
Notebook nicked from van months ago contained data on blood donors. Officials say they only recently recognized danger.

Data of 100,000 Berkeley Grads Stolen

Data of 100,000 Berkeley Grads Stolen 03/29/2005 11:36 AM
For the second time this month, a California university has exposed personal information of its students, highlighting the increasing risk of identity theft. UC Berkeley officials acknowledged Monday that a laptop stolen on March 11 contained names and Social Security numbers of more than 98,000 individuals.

Personal Data of 59,000 People Stolen
(AP)

Personal Data of 59,000 People Stolen
(AP) 03/23/2005 01:22 PM
AP - Hackers gained personal information of 59,000 people affiliated with a California university — the latest in a string of high-profile cases of identity theft.

Berkeley Grads' Identity Data Stolen

Berkeley Grads' Identity Data Stolen 03/29/2005 09:33 AM

LexisNexis: Data on 310,000 people
feared stolen

LexisNexis: Data on 310,000 people
feared stolen 04/14/2005 02:08 AM

Lawmaker Doubts Los Alamos Data Was
Stolen

Lawmaker Doubts Los Alamos Data Was
Stolen 07/21/2004 02:44 AM
A congressman who visited the laboratory this week to examine security lapses said that two missing computer disks containing classified information had probably been misplaced.

Customers' Data Believed Stolen From
Polo

Customers' Data Believed Stolen From
Polo 04/15/2005 05:11 AM
Chicagotribune.com - Thu Apr 14, 11:18 pm GMT

LexisNexis data on 310,000 people feared
stolen

LexisNexis data on 310,000 people feared
stolen 04/12/2005 02:37 PM
Data broker LexisNexis said personal information may have been stolen on 310,000 U.S. citizens, or nearly 10 times the number found in a data breach announced last month.

Stolen computer holds data on 100,000
people

Stolen computer holds data on 100,000
people 03/29/2005 04:30 AM
Boston Globe Mar 29 2005 8:50AM GMT

Medical group: Data on 185,000 people
was stolen

Medical group: Data on 185,000 people
was stolen 04/08/2005 03:48 PM
Thieves make off with a California organization's two new Dell PCs--and the financial and medical records of thousands of patients.

CardSystems should not have retained
stolen customer data

CardSystems should not have retained
stolen customer data 06/22/2005 01:58 AM
Late last week, MasterCard announced that tens of thousands of credit card numbers had been stolen from a payment processor. Now it turns out that the processor in question should not have retained the stolen data in the first place.

Stolen Computers Expose Personal Data

Stolen Computers Expose Personal Data 04/08/2005 03:24 PM
Forbes Apr 8 2005 7:57PM GMT

Polo Ralph Lauren Customers' Data Stolen
(AP)

Polo Ralph Lauren Customers' Data Stolen
(AP) 04/14/2005 10:06 AM
AP - Data apparently stolen from the popular clothing retailer Polo Ralph Lauren Inc. is forcing banks and credit card issuers to notify thousands of consumers that their credit-card information may have been exposed.

Israeli sensitive defense data stolen by
hackers

Israeli sensitive defense data stolen by
hackers 06/06/2005 12:06 AM

Polo Ralph Lauren customers' data stolen

Polo Ralph Lauren customers' data stolen 04/15/2005 11:10 PM
globetechnology.com Apr 16 2005 3:44AM GMT

Black Market in Stolen Credit Card Data
Thrives on Internet

Black Market in Stolen Credit Card Data
Thrives on Internet 06/22/2005 02:03 AM
Despite years of security improvements, credit card and bank account numbers are boldly hawked on the Internet.

Data theft understated

Data theft understated 04/12/2005 11:50 PM
USA Today Apr 13 2005 3:49AM GMT

Still Another Data Theft Discovered

Still Another Data Theft Discovered 03/14/2005 04:34 PM
According to this ARS article, another 32,000 US Citizen's dates of birth, SS numbers, drivers license numbers, and other ID info were all stolen from Seisant, a division of Reed Elsevier.

Reed Elsevier says it is in the process of contacting those affected by the breach and will offer them assistance in detecting any possible identity theft resulting from their lapse.Seisint, which was acquired by Reed Elsevier in 2004, has previously come under criticism for giving government officials the names of 120,000 people who supposedly fit terrorist profiles in the wake of the attacks of September 11, 2001. Now, it joins the growing list of companies that traffic in consumer data without taking adequate safeguards to protect it.

LexisNexis: 280,000 more possible data
theft victims

LexisNexis: 280,000 more possible data
theft victims 04/12/2005 01:39 PM
An internal investigation at the LexisNexis division of Reed Elsevier has uncovered evidence that as many as 310,000 more people may have had their personal information exposed to unauthorized individuals who compromised the security of a massive database of public and private information, including Social Security and drivers license numbers.

DSW Data Theft Larger Than Predicted
(AP)

DSW Data Theft Larger Than Predicted
(AP) 04/18/2005 11:16 PM
AP - Thieves who accessed a DSW Shoe Warehouse database obtained 1.4 million credit card numbers and the names on those accounts — 10 times more than investigators estimated last month.

Personal Data Theft: It's Outrageous

Personal Data Theft: It's Outrageous 04/18/2005 08:41 AM
Business Week Apr 18 2005 12:39PM GMT
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