Tens of thousands of job-seekers are at risk after a laptop belonging to a nonprofit employment agency was stolen.How many victims? Roughly 26,000 low-income and disadvantaged residents in the Cleveland area who provided data to the Towards Employment anytime before May 11.What type of personal information? Names, addresses and Social Security numbers.What happened? A thief stole the laptop from Towards' offices.Details: The machine was password protected, but that control could be bypassed, the company said. Since the incident, Towards is no longer collecting Social Security numbers from its clients.Source: Cleveland.com, The Plain Dealer, "Towards Employment warns clients of data breach, possible identity theft," June 25, 2012.[An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that the number of victims was 100,000, when it was actually a roughly 26,000. One hundred thousand is the total number of clients that the agency has served over the past 36 years].
Breach, Data Security, Network Security
Cleveland nonprofit employment agency loses SSNs on 26k
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