From: lyger (lygerattrition.org)
Date: Sun Jul 05 2009 - 14:16:02 CDT

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http://www.sbpost.ie/post/pages/p/story.aspx-qqqt=IRELAND-qqqm=news-qqqid=42906-qqqx=1.asp

Personal details of more than 100,000 Bord Gais customers were on laptops
stolen from the energy firm last month, significantly more than the 75,000
initially reported.

Details of the full extent of the security breach are expected to emerge
when the findings of an investigation into the laptop thefts are
disclosed. Four laptops were stolen from the Bord Gais offices on Foley
Street in Dublin city centre on June 5, including at least one containing
unencrypted customer information and bank account details.

Gardai investigated the theft of the laptops, while the Office of the Data
Protection Commissioner is investigating why the laptop with the customer
information was not encrypted.

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