Author Topic: Stolen laptop with personal data (Read 725 times)

dmf · « **Reply #15 on:** March 24, 2006, 08:13:05 PM »

If we don't have the Data Protection Act here in America, then sombody in Washington needs to look up from his Iraqi war paperwork and get to work. ( not mentioning any names here.....bush )

Krusher · « **Reply #16 on:** March 24, 2006, 08:28:35 PM »

Thanks for the tips guys,

I am surprised this han't made the news yet considering the company is fidelity investments.

I just recieved their overnight letter explaining the situation. It was stolen March 15th, we were just notified 8 days later! By now they thieves have had time to sell what they wanted. There is supposedly a software license that expired and made the data "difficult to interpret". I doubt the thieves waited very long to examine the contents, and difficult is not impossible.

We have been told to contact the credit reporting companies and put fraud alert on our listing and check use our one free credit report to look for unusual accounts.

This is crap I have made every effort to keep my personal information safe and in what can only be described as an idiotic act they gave it away by putting it on a laptop.

Krusher · « **Reply #17 on:** March 24, 2006, 08:31:18 PM »

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Originally posted by Skuzzy
That should company should be sued out of existence to be so inept to allow anyone to place trusted data on a portable computer.

Protecting trusted data is a matter of discipline and process. Anyone putting trusted data on a laptop simply means there is no process, nor discipline in place. The IT department should be fired, in its entirety, from the top down. Idiots.

when I found out it was on a notebook I was stunned at the stupidity. I am waiting to see what my company is going to do to support us but so far they have kept pretty quiet other than warning us it was stolen.

guttboy · « **Reply #18 on:** March 25, 2006, 09:27:16 AM »

You should also put out a fraud alert with the big three credit companys so that if anything does happen you have notified them.

There have been 2 instances when our information has been stolen (Bank and Healthcare company)...both times we were advised to put the fraud alert with the credit companies.

In addition...we put fraud alerts on our CC's, Bank accts, investment accts, etc and established verbal passwords with each company.

I know this is a really crappy situation for you. HOWEVER, you have to take action on your part to prevent something dire from happening.

I am very sorry to hear what happened. BTW...I would be going after that "investment" guy that lost your information...my lord on a laptop??? Where was it stolen from? If the laptop was for company use only aka in the brick and mortar building and secured like desktops are then so be it...in addition that information should be on the SERVER and not the personal hard drive in my opinion.

john9001 · « **Reply #19 on:** March 25, 2006, 10:30:51 AM »

i heard it was only HP employee data, i have accounts with fidelity and did not get a letter.

Urchin · « **Reply #20 on:** March 25, 2006, 11:05:24 AM »

I'm sure you gave them permission to have your information wherever they wanted to put it, so they haven't done anything wrong here.

Right Mav?

Maverick · « **Reply #21 on:** March 25, 2006, 12:11:40 PM »

Urchin,

I think I hear your mommy calling you to balance your checkbook for this year.

Krusher · « **Reply #22 on:** March 25, 2006, 04:27:29 PM »

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Originally posted by guttboy
You should also put out a fraud alert with the big three credit companys so that if anything does happen you have notified them.

I did that last night, thanks

Urchin · « **Reply #23 on:** March 25, 2006, 08:56:40 PM »

Hey there Deputy Fife, where is his lecture about taking responsibility for his information?

Or don't your amigos get em too?

dmf · « **Reply #24 on:** March 25, 2006, 09:04:43 PM »

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Originally posted by Urchin
I'm sure you gave them permission to have your information wherever they wanted to put it, so they haven't done anything wrong here.

Right Mav?

I think theres companys out there that collect personal information weather or not you give them premission to do so, I bet someday were all gonna be sitting watching the news and see a company that has personal information that their not supposed to keep get busted because of some security risk that went haywire.

NattyIced · « **Reply #25 on:** March 25, 2006, 09:51:08 PM »

See Rule #4

Hangtime · « **Reply #26 on:** March 25, 2006, 10:01:25 PM »

Kinda sad really... yer bare assed nekkid as far as 'protection' goes. Data Mining, ChoicePoint, Homeland Security..

ANY concept on your part that your personal info is 'secure' is utterly ludicrious.

The fact that somebody swiped a laptop with those bits of personal data on it pales in comparison to the shocking reality that for a modest fee ChoicePoint can tell yah things about yerself, yer family, yer friends, contacts, business and personal habits and health you probably already forgot about.

But they didn't.

'Privacy' is nonexsistent.