25.11.2008 Starbucks leak: not a coffee, but data on 97000 employees
Starbucks Corp. confirmed Monday that a laptop containing private information on 97,000 employees was stolen Oct. 29. The information included names, addresses and Social Security numbers, according to an undated memo addressed to affected employees.

15.11.2008 Data on 344 thousand patients stolen at Florida University
University of Florida officials have notified about 330,000 current and former dental patients that an unauthorized intruder recently accessed a College of Dentistry computer server storing their personal information.

11.11.2008 Data on 4,500 SNU Students Leaked Online
Personal information of more than 4,500 students and professors at Seoul National University was leaked online and has been available to anonymous people.

08.11.2008 Personal data of 85 thousand North Carolina residents stolen
A state-owned laptop computer with personal information about 85,045 North Carolina residents was stolen last month in Atlanta, state officials announced today.

07.11.2008 Laptop containing 100 thousand personal files stolen from Baylor Health Care
A laptop computer containing limited health information on 100,000 patients was stolen from an employee's car in September, Baylor Health Care System Inc. said Monday.

05.11.2008 Accidentally found flash-drive contained access codes to UK Gateway system
A memory stick was found in a pub car park containing confidential passcodes to the online Government Gateway system, which covers everything from tax returns to parking tickets.

31.10.2008 Joe the Plumber as another victim of US presidential campaign
A pair of prominent Republicans supporting presidential candidate John McCain urged the Ohio inspector general yesterday to investigate the use of government computers to find personal information about "Joe the Plumber."

24.10.2008 Security Breach at KRM Management can lead to identity fraud of 5700 employees
Fresno, CA, USA (KFSN) -- Fresno police say everything from electronics to personal items was taken from a northwest Fresno office. Including a computer with confidential information on more than five thousand city employees ... Like social security numbers.

22.10.2008 800 Hospital patient data revealed
A security breach in an online computer system at Mary Washington Hospital exposed the private medical information of some of its maternity patients.

15.10.2008 Deloitte loses data on 100 pensioners
A laptop containing personal details of at least 100,000 pension scheme members has been stolen from an employee of the accountancy firm Deloitte.

14.10.2008 British Ministry of Defence is defenceless againts breaches.
An investigation is under way into the disappearance of a computer hard drive which could contain the details of about 100,000 Armed Forces personnel.

11.10.2008 Deutsche Telekom loses 17 million of personal records
The data breach was uncovered after Der Spiegel magazine said it managed to access customer information via a third party.

04.10.2008 E-bay sells british secrets for Ј17
Police are investigating the sale of a digital camera containing MI6 images of terror suspects on eBay, the Foreign Office has confirmed.

26.09.2008 High-speed data breach: hacker tried to blackmail Mazeratti
A resident of Solana Beach, Calif., has been charged with stealing customer data from luxury car seller Maserati North America Inc. and then trying to extort money from the company by threatening to publicly disclose the details of the system intrusion.

23.09.2008 Son of democratic congressman accused of breaching Sarah Palin’s mailbox.
FBI agents served a federal search warrant to 20-year-old University of Tennessee student David Kernell early Sunday morning in their investigation into the hacking of Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin's e-mail last week.

22.09.2008 United Arab Emirates credit network attacked by hackers
An international investigation is under way to find hackers believed to have stolen information from financial servers in the UAE to make fraudulent credit and debit card purchases in the US.

18.09.2008 Largest Data Leak in Norway: data on 4 million Norwegians sent to media
Norway's national tax office mistakenly sent confidential information about nearly 85% of Norwegian adults to nine major media groups, an error the government described as "extremely serious".

14.09.2008 Insider stole 2 million personal entries from Countrywide real estate database
Countrywide Financial Corp. is offering two years of free credit monitoring to customers whose sensitive personal information, including Social Security numbers, allegedly was stolen from the home lender's computer files.

11.09.2008 GS Caltex Faces Class Action Suit over S. Korea's Largest Data Leak
GS Caltex Co., South Korea's second-largest oil refiner, faced a class action suit brought by 500 clients seeking compensation for a recent leak of their private data, their representative said.

07.09.2008 Largest Data Breach in Korea: Data Stolen on 11 mln. Korean citizens.
Police detained two employees of a subcontractor of GS Caltex and two of their friends, Sunday, for the alleged theft of personal information of more than 11 million customers of the oil refiner.