The wall of shame has a new candidate for stolen laptops I’m afraid. This time a laptop with personal information for employees at Stanford University was pinched.
From the San Francisco Chronicle:
Stanford University has notified tens of thousands of past and current Stanford University employees that their personal information – including their dates of birth, Social Security numbers and home addresses – was on the hard drive of a stolen university laptop.
A Stanford spokesman said Saturday the stolen computer contained personal information on people hired by the university before Sept. 28, 2007, which could be as many as 72,000 people. Stanford sent out an e-mail message Friday to all the current and former employees it could reach, advising them of the theft.
“While there is no evidence that any of the information on the stolen laptop has been accessed, the University is committed to taking steps to assist individuals whose personal data may be misused,” Stanford Chief Financial Officer Randy Livingston wrote in the e-mail.
Odd that no details of the actual theft were provided save for the fact that it occurred.