08.09.2007 CHR patient data stolen
Sensitive information falls into wrong hands when thieves hit health region. - read more: calsun.canoe.ca

07.09.2007 McKesson: stolen computers contain patient information
Execs at the health-care services company are unsure how much identifying information was contained on the patients documented in the missing machines. - read more: informationweek.com

07.09.2007 ID theft updated for the 21st century
Federal agents and prosecutors sounded a warning Thursday to the millions of people who use peer-to-peer software for downloading music or video files: "You are handing criminals the keys to your computer." - read more: seattlepi.nwsource.com

06.09.2007 More than 4,000 De Anza students at risk for ID theft, school says
CUPERTINO, Calif. -- De Anza College announced Thursday that thousands of former students might be at risk for identity fraud after an instructor's laptop computer, containing students' personal information, was stolen last month. - read more: nbc11.com

06.09.2007 USC investigates student information found on the Web
COLUMBIA, S.C. --The University of South Carolina is looking into what it called an "accidental disclosure" of private student information on the Internet, school spokesman Russ McKinney said Thursday. - read more: charlotte.com

04.09.2007 Pfizer workers' identities at risk
Some 34,000 Pfizer Inc. workers, including some current and former employees in Michigan, are at risk for identity theft, according to a letter to employees obtained by The Detroit News. - read more: detnews.com

01.09.2007 Computer with 6,000 patient records stolen from hospital
BALTIMORE - A desktop computer containing the personal information of 5,783 Johns Hopkins Hospital patients was stolen in mid-July, hospital officials said. - read more: examiner.com

31.08.2007 Connecticut revenue agency reports missing laptop
Connecticut Gov. Jodi Rell has ordered the state's IT agency to implement new controls for protecting sensitive data on laptops after a recent theft exposed data on 106,000 taxpayers in the state. - read more: pcworld.com

31.08.2007 Sick Kids doctor loses data on 3,300 patients
Six weeks after Ontario's privacy commissioner ordered the Hospital for Sick Children not to remove electronic health records from the hospital, a doctor lost an external hard drive containing such records at the country's busiest airport. - read more: thestar.com

31.08.2007 Monster.com data theft also hit US govt job site
BOSTON, Aug 30 (Reuters) - About 146,000 people using a U.S. government jobs Web site had their personal information stolen by hackers who broke into computers at Monster Worldwide Inc . - read more: reuters.com

30.08.2007 Maryland Department of the Environment reports stolen laptop
A Maryland Department of the Environment laptop computer stolen from an employee's car last weekend held personal information, including Social Security numbers, for 10,000 residents registered with one of four state boards. - read more: baltimoresun.com

27.08.2007 Personal data for 35,000 vets stolen
WASHINGTON - Personal records including addresses and Social Security numbers of more than 35,000 veterans and their families were stolen this month from the offices of a POW support organization in Texas, officials announced Friday. - read more: military.com

23.08.2007 Grads warned about potential identity theft after thieves steal school computer
WINDSOR, CONNECTICUT - A burglary earlier this month at the Loomis Chaffee School has potentially left the personal information, including Social Security numbers, of several hundred past students vulnerable, officials say. - read more: journalinquirer.com

22.08.2007 Apology sent over CalPERS privacy error
State pension fund officials apologized Tuesday to hundreds of thousands of retirees whose Social Security numbers were printed on brochures mailed out last week and vowed to take immediate steps to ensure that such an error does not happen again. - read more: sacbee.com

22.08.2007 Off-network security: a crisis at hand
When Redemtech first considered a survey to measure the severity of the current off-network data security crisis, the reasons to investigate the topic were abundant. - read more: redemtech.com

22.08.2007 Personal data on barbers, cosmetologists stolen
At least 10,000 barbers and cosmetologists whose personal information was contained in a fireproof safe stolen Friday from the Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists office on Pennsylvania Avenue. - read more: dailymail.com

21.08.2007 Suspect named in TJX credit card probe
Authorities have zeroed in on a Ukrainian man they suspect played a key role in the sale of many credit card numbers stolen from TJX Cos. in what is considered the biggest corporate data breach to date. - read more: boston.com

16.08.2007 Second security breach hits Pfizer
The latest security cock-up involving the Viagra maker concerns the theft of two laptops containing details of 950 Pfizer contract workers from the car of an employee of consulting firm Axia. - read more: channelregister.co.uk

14.08.2007 The TJX Companies, Inc. estimates liability from computer systems intrusions
The Company estimated its potential liability from the computer intrusion(s) and recorded an after-tax charge of $118 million, or $.25 per share. - read more: businesswire.com

11.08.2007 Police on terror alert over theft of top secret records on computer database
A major security alert has been sparked after the theft of a computer database containing thousands of top secret telephone records from police investigations into terrorism and organised crime. - read more: mailonsunday.co.uk