Comments on: Stolen laptop contains private info of local teachers

By: Dave Briggman

Dave Briggman — Tue, 20 May 2008 02:55:52 +0000

finnegan,

WSVA always says “no one’s more up to date than you are” after all of their local news…I believe Karl.

By: finnegan

finnegan — Mon, 19 May 2008 18:52:54 +0000

Also, “bwater resident,” I can see IP addresses, and I know which building you’re posting from.

Wink, wink.

By: finnegan

finnegan — Mon, 19 May 2008 18:46:19 +0000

If you want to blindly accept that whatever the DNR (or any other single news source) includes is all you ever need to know, that’s your choice, “bwater resident.” The WSVA report says, “several other employers in Virginia.”

It would be great if WSVA had permalinks and archives for individual stories.

By: bwater resident

bwater resident — Mon, 19 May 2008 18:37:27 +0000

Pretty logicial if they were a national media outlet. They cover the SV. The relevant info was provided to their readers.

By: TM

TM — Mon, 19 May 2008 17:01:55 +0000

Some info was included in the WSVA story from 5/14. It’s not on the website anymore, but here’s the bit I’m talking about:

“The laptop contained names, birth dates and social security numbers of those who took part in the school’s dental plan in the past. A BB&T spokesperson says the information may have included in some cases medical history and salary. It also contained similar employee information from several other employers in Virginia, involving about 5,000 individuals altogether. The information was being used to develop insurance proposals for the employers.”

By: Seth

Seth — Mon, 19 May 2008 15:44:55 +0000

yeah i looked and saw that. one would think that it would be pretty logical to ask whether the breach was limited to employee’s of the city schools or whether there were other’s who do business with bb&t who were affected.

i really don’t know anymore than what i posted above (i.e. the info on the laptop wasn’t limited to city school employees).

might be worth checking into…

By: finnegan

finnegan — Mon, 19 May 2008 14:53:42 +0000

There’s no indication in the DNR story from the 15th that there are others (outside of city school employees) whose information was stolen.

It just says, “A BB&T Insurance laptop containing the personnel information of some Harrisonburg City Schools employees was stolen…”

What did you find out, Seth?

By: Gxeremio

Gxeremio — Mon, 19 May 2008 14:43:39 +0000

Seth, I’d be interested to hear what you’ve learned.

By the way, BB&T has YET to contact the teachers whose data was stolen.

By: Seth

Seth — Mon, 19 May 2008 14:41:36 +0000

i happened to find out this morning that the info on that laptop wasn’t limited to employees of city schools. i didn’t see the dnr piece on it yet, so i don’t know if they’ve got more information than what’s been posted here. i assume that bb&t is contacting all companies whose employee’s information may have been compromised….