CHRONOLOGY OF DATA SECURITY BREACHES

Police investigating theft of computers; one contained names, Social Security numbers of MDE employees.

Starbucks Corp. confirmed Monday that a laptop containing private information on 97,000 employees was stolen Oct. 29.

Some Rowan County seniors are at risk for having their identities stolen because of a laptop theft in Atlanta.

A laptop computer containing limited health information on 100,000 patients was stolen from an employee's car in September, Baylor Health Care System Inc. said Monday.

A laptop computer containing the names and Social Security numbers of more than 300 state employees was stolen in Charleston last month, but officials do not believe that any of the employees' personal information has been compromised.

A laptop computer containing sensitive personal and financial information on more than 84,000 UND alumni, donors and others was stolen last month from a vehicle belonging to a software vendor retained by the UND Alumni Association.

Deutsche Telekom's German mobile phone subsidiary T-Mobile lost a disk containing personal information about 17 million of its customers in early 2006, the company said Saturday.

Republican campaigners in Missouri are beefing up security after a laptop containing "strategic information" was stolen from a campaign field office of presidential contender Sen. John McCain.

A computer containing banking security details of more than 1 million people has been sold on eBay, bank officials said Tuesday - the latest in a series of losses of personal data in the U.K.

Twelve laptops containing Social Security numbers, names and birth dates of 9,000 current and former Charter Communications Inc. workers were stolen from an office in South Carolina.

We've all heard of the horrible data security breaches that occur when a company fails to update their firewalls or an employee leaves a laptop with massive amounts of data out in the open.

About 150,000 people in the US have been affected by the theft of laptops with personal information about current and former employees of brewing giant Anheuser-Busch.

A glitch in a test version of Facebook's Web site inadvertently exposed the birthdays of Facebook's 80 million members this week.

Freedom Credit Union is warning customers of a security breach whereby debit card data was electronically captured by individuals who may have used it in a counterfeit scheme.

The ATMs are inside 7-Eleven stores throughout the country.

A data breach at a California company that administers benefit plans to businesses across the country involved personal information on all Google employees hired prior to Dec. 31, 2005, the search engine giant said.

Keep laptops close at airports, because they have a startling tendency to disappear in the blink of an eye, according to a new survey.

More than 6,500 CNET Networks employees and relatives are being notified of a possible data breach after burglars stole computer systems from the offices of the company that administers the Internet publisher's benefit plans.

The Scottish Health Secretary has acknowledged that a Scottish Ambulance Service disk containing details of hundreds of thousands of emergency calls was lost earlier this month.

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.