Personal information of 100 sailors stolen

[unhappycamper]

Personal information of 100 sailors stolen
The Associated Press
Posted : Saturday Jan 19, 2008 8:11:54 EST

SAN DIEGO — The Navy is contacting about 100 sailors after it learned that their personal information had been stolen.

Law-enforcement agents in San Diego last month carried out a search warrant at a local civilian’s home, where they found documents containing personal military identifying information, the Navy said Friday.

The Navy does not know when or how the security breach occurred. Some of the documents date back to 1999.

The theft involves sailors once assigned to Sea Control Squadron 41, John C. Stennis, Nimitz, Branch Medical Naval Air Station North Island and Naval Air Station Fallon.

A Navy-led investigation is underway.


Article at: http://www.navytimes.com/news/2008/01/ap_sailorinfostolen_080119/

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. Heh - personal information of 600,000 military and applicants stolen in UK

CONCERNS about the safety of serving Muslim military personnel and recruits were raised yesterday after it emerged that their personal details were among those of 600,000 people held on a laptop stolen from a Royal Navy officer’s car in Birmingham.

Ministry of Defence (MoD) officials fear that Muslims are particularly exposed to a potential threat following an alleged plot to kidnap and behead a serving British Muslim soldier in Birmingham last year. After that, all Muslim soldiers were said to have been given security advice.

The MoD is understood this weekend to be trying to contact all those deemed at risk following the laptop theft. The personal details of every person who wrote inquiring about a job with the navy, RAF and the Royal Marines in the last 10 years were held on the stolen laptop.

The MoD says the data include the names, home addresses, bank and passport details, national insurance and National Health Service numbers of thousands of staff and potential recruits. A Whitehall official said yesterday the details of many serving servicemen and women were among the data.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article3216683.ece

[thunder rising]

2. Another DB on an unsecured laptop. FAA "lost" all the personal details of FL pilots

Never made the news, I just got a letter that these incompetent cretins and cronies had put my personal information on a FUCKING LAPTOP that then got left in a park somewhere.

The days when hand-cuffed brief cases made sure the items were accounted for are gone. Trust us with your data.