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News Networking company D-Link is appealing for help from the public after 7,200 of its broadband wireless starter kits were stolen. D-Link said the starter kits - consisting of a broadband router and USB adapter - were... [13 Oct 2006]
Stolen ePassports 'worth £20m' on black market
News The thousands of UK ePassports stolen on Monday are likely to sell for up to £20m on the black market, say privacy experts. Simon Davies, director of Privacy International, said: "It's unlikely that the... [29 Jul 2008]
Stolen M&S laptop contains 26,000 pension details
News The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has threatened the retail giant with possible prosecution after the unencrypted data on a laptop was stolen from a contractor in April 2007. The data was... [25 Jan 2008]
Stolen laptop puts 16,000 council staff at risk
News More than 16,000 council workers in the Midlands have been warned their sensitive personal data may have been compromised after a laptop was stolen from one of their colleagues. A spokeswoman for the council told... [28 Feb 2007]
Stolen laptop leaves Nationwide red-faced
News The laptop was stolen from an employee's house in a burglary in August. Both the FSA and Nationwide have refused to say exactly what data was stolen. The building society is willing to say what has not... [14 Nov 2006]
Hospital bitten by watchdog over stolen laptops
News The UK privacy watchdog has criticised lax NHS data security as it announced it is taking action against a London hospital where two laptops were stolen. The Information Commissioner's Office yesterday announced it is... [06 Feb 2009]
MI5 claims stolen laptop not a security risk
News UK intelligence service MI5 has admitted that sensitive government information was lost when a laptop was stolen from one of its agents earlier this month. Special branch officers are reportedly working to recover the... [24 Mar 2000]
£250k to help police ID stolen phones
News £250,000 of new funding has been made available to help police identify stolen mobile phones, the Home Office has announced. Home Office minister Alan Campbell said the funding will be used to integrate the Police... [17 Mar 2009]
185,000 people's medical data stolen
News On 28 March, during the early morning hours, the building was broken into and the medical group's two new Dell computers were stolen. We believe they were stolen because of the kind of computers they... [11 Apr 2005]
3 Steps to Protect Confidential Data on Laptops: Guidelines to Secure Data Before and After a Laptop Is Stolen or Missing
White Paper From 2005 to 2006 there was an 81% increase in the number of companies reporting stolen laptops containing sensitive information. The impact of stolen or missing laptops is no longer merely the capital... [05 Aug 2009]
Dealer admits handling stolen Enigma machine
News Dennis Yates, a dealer in World War Two memorabilia, has pleaded guilty to the charge of handling a stolen Enigma encoding machine. The machine was stolen from Bletchley Park museum in April last year,... [26 Sep 2001]
Tax credit fiasco: 8,800 identities stolen
News Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) was forced to close down the tax credits website at the start of December last year, after a spate of fraudulent claims came to light which exploited the stolen identities of... [19 Jan 2006]
eBay and UK bobbies team up on stolen mobiles
News The Metropolitan Police Force has announced a partnership with eBay to crack down on the trade in stolen mobile phones over the internet auction site. According to the Met, officers have been working with eBay fraud... [07 Aug 2006]
Police crack down on 'stolen handset' scammers
News The police are fed up with people pretending their mobiles have been stolen - so the Met have decided to launch a campaign to warn phone users that lying about what happened to their handsets is a crime. [14 Jul 2004]
Halifax mortgage data stolen
News UK high street bank Halifax has admitted stolen documents from one of its employees contained data on 13,000 mortgage customers. The documents were in a briefcase stolen from the locked car of an... [27 Mar 2007]
