Missing Hard Drive Spurs Data-Theft Fears In Canada

Posted by timothy on Thursday January 30, 2003 @09:42AM from the get-your-new-ehdentity dept.

DevNull writes "A government of Saskatchewan (Canada) hard drive has gone missing, and it contains significant personal data - in fact, the government won't even detail what all is contained in it. Read about it from the CBC. So much for people who think the internet is the cause of all their security fears! Identity theft is the major concern at the moment." B5_geek links to this report on Bloomberg.com which says that "'[t]he information includes names, addresses, beneficiaries, social insurance numbers, pension values, pre-authorized checking information and mothers' maiden names," according to Co-operators Chief Executive Kathy Bardswick

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The Co-Operators by Hadean · 2003-01-30 11:18 · Score: 4, Informative

The drive contained a list of members, the information above and credit card numbers of members of the Co-Operators Life insurance company.

Check out this article (Regina Leader Post).

(OT: Have you noticed that there are more and more threads on Slashdot that has less then 10 comments? Hmmm...)