A former employee of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. departed the agency with a storage device that contained data and information involving 44,000 FDIC customers.
The online prescription drug company OptumRx reported that an unknown number of customer records were compromised when a vendor employee's laptop was stolen.
The leaking of 11.5 million documents has underscored the vulnerability of data on electronic systems and raised the intriguing question of who did it?
A personal laptop and hard drives that may have contained data on close to 5 million medical patients was stolen from a Washington State federal building, prompting calls for the Department of Health and Human Services to reveal the extent of the damage.
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