update: More than 100, 000 affected by Bord Gais laptop thefts

[lyger <lyger () attrition org>]

http://www.sbpost.ie/post/pages/p/story.aspx-qqqt=IRELAND-qqqm=news-qqqid=42906-qqqx=1.asp

Personal details of more than 100,000 Bord Gais customers were on laptops 
stolen from the energy firm last month, significantly more than the 75,000 
initially reported.

Details of the full extent of the security breach are expected to emerge 
when the findings of an investigation into the laptop thefts are 
disclosed. Four laptops were stolen from the Bord Gais offices on Foley 
Street in Dublin city centre on June 5, including at least one containing 
unencrypted customer information and bank account details.

Gardai investigated the theft of the laptops, while the Office of the Data 
Protection Commissioner is investigating why the laptop with the customer 
information was not encrypted.

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