Fidelity Laptop Stolen with over 196,000 Records

RE: http://www.netclarity.net/html/necn_coverage.html to see the NECN story...

I'm finding more and more cases like this... Check out these numbers:
More than 52 million records have been lost or stolen since the ChoicePoint
fraud:
Company Date Disclosed Breach Records Lost
CardSystems June 16, 2005 Hacked 40,000,000
CitiFinancial June 6, 2005 Lost Tape 3,900,000
LaSalle Bank Dec 16, 2005 Lost Tape 2,000,000
DSW/Retail March 8, 2005 Hacked 1,400,000
Bank of America Feb 25, 2005 Lost Tape 1,200,000
Wachovia Bank April 28, 2005 Inside Hack 676,000
Time Warner May 2, 2005 Lost Tape 600,000
Georgia DMV April, 2005 Inside Hack 465,000
Lexis-Nexis March 10, 2005 Passwords stolen 312,000
U of Southern CA July 19, 2005 Hacked 270,000
Marriot International Dec 28, 2005 Lost Tape 206,000
Ameritrade April 20, 2005 Lost Tape 200,000
San Jose Med. Group April 8, 2005 Stolen Computer 185,000
Source: Privacy Rights Clearinghouse.

Also, check this out: www.cybercrime.gov and look at the cases...

Keep your laptop close and your data private!

All the best,
Gary

P.S. I found "Lojackforlaptops.com" and "ztrace.com" having some cool tools for this...
Gary S. Miliefsky, CISSP
Founder & CTO
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