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Re: UVa laptop stolen, had sensitive data
From: "Mike Simon" <mikeasimon () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:34:15 -0700
Typically, even a FOIA request can be refused while police are investigating the crime. Something to do with not alerting the criminals to exactly what the police know and what actions they are taking. On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 8:16 AM, Chris Walsh <chris () cwalsh org> wrote:
Time for somebody to FOIA the Virginia AG's office. Breaches must be centrally-reported to the AG there. cw On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 07:49:57AM +0000, security curmudgeon wrote:---------- Forwarded message ---------- A laptop stolen from a University of Virginia employee containedsensitiveinformation about more than 7,000 students, staff and faculty members. Stolen from an unidentified employee from an undisclosed location in Albemarle County, the laptop contained a confidential file filled with names and Social Security numbers. "As soon as we learned about the theft, we starting moving as quickly as we could," UVa spokeswoman Carol Wood said. UVa mailed out letters Monday to each person affected by the databreach.The university will publicly announce the incident today. The Albemarle County Police Department is investigating the theft. At the police department's request, UVa is releasing few details about the incident. Wood declined to say when the burglary occurred or which academic departments were affected. She did say, however, that the theft did not occur on UVa's campus._______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tenable Network Security offers data leakage and compliance monitoring solutions for large and small networks. Scan your network and monitor your traffic to find the data needing protection before it leaks out! http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/compliance.shtml
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- UVa laptop stolen, had sensitive data security curmudgeon (Apr 16)
- Re: UVa laptop stolen, had sensitive data Chris Walsh (Apr 16)
- Re: UVa laptop stolen, had sensitive data Mike Simon (Apr 16)
- Re: UVa laptop stolen, had sensitive data Chris Walsh (Apr 16)