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Stolen Ameriprise Laptop Has Customer Data

( Laptops and Theft )

It was reported by various news outfits that Ameriprise Financial Inc., the former brokerage unit of American Express Co., has acknowledged that a company laptop computer which contained information on about 158,000 customers had been stolen.
Ameriprise said the theft occurred when an employee’s vehicle was broken into at “an off-site location.” MacMillan declined to say […]

Devestating Theft of Laptop

( Laptops and Theft )

Look how sad losing her laptop made this student in New Zealand. On January 13 2006, Tara Olsthoorn a third year nursing student and volunteer surf life guard noticed the window of her car was down. Her worst fears were confirmed and her laptop computer was missing.

They took my laptop, all my […]

Did Cuban Spies steal an activist’s laptop?

( Laptops and Theft )

A group of anti-Castro activists wonders if spies may have stolen a laptop computer from their office during Hurricane Wilma. The office of the Cuban Liberty Council was not forcibly broken into and nothing was taken except for the Apple laptop. The burglary of the laptop seemed to have occured as Miami shut […]