Determined Thief Steals Cable-Locked Laptop from Canadian Bank
Evan at BreachBlog posted an interesting item about a laptop theft from the National Bank of Canada.
As Evan notes, this is not the kind of theft that we see reported often. The thief entered the company’s offices during regular business hours, entered the office containing the laptop, cut the security cable, and stole the laptop. Nothing else was reported missing. The laptop contained the name, address, and checking account number of a “high percentage” of the bank’s mortgage clients.
I hate to jump to conclusions, but this is either the most interesting coincidence I’ve ever heard of, or someone with inside information about where this data was stored has some motive to steal this particular laptop. A spokesperson for bank has noted that since there were no Social Insurance Numbers as part of the data, the impact is “minimal”. I think the hoops the thief jumped through to steal this particular laptop makes it likely that he or she had some intention to use the data on the machine, which makes the likely impact of this theft much greater than the average laptop stolen in a crime of opportunity.
Photo by Oskay
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