The Boston Herald reported a laptop “holding Social Security numbers of current and former staffers was stolen out of Greater Media’s Philadelphia offices.”
Greater Media is offering credit monitoring to the impacted individuals “if staffers sign up by the end of the year.”

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Thursday, 11/2, the VA confirmed a computer containing data about 1,600 U.S. military veterans was stolen from their Manhatten hospital.
According to the report, it was stolen from “a locked room in a locked hallway at the VA hospital. The theft occurred Sept. 6, but VA officials sent out a letter to veterans only within the past two weeks. The personal data of about 1,600 people was on the computer’s hard drive. It was the third theft of personal data from a VA facility in less than a year.”

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