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Copper Thieves are the New Gold Diggers

2008-05-12 02:15:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...Thieves are cashing in on the rising price of copper In one case, two men tried to sell copper caps to a scrap metal dealer in Chicago. The dealer became suspicious and notified Police. The two men worked at a munitions factory and the copper they were trying to sell were casings from 1.5 million rounds of ammunition. One of them is now...
 
Tags: copper, thieves, visible copper, copper caps, thieves hit, scrap metal dealer, dealer, police, hit construction sites
 
 
 
 
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Beware! $4 + a gallon is bringing out the thieves in our communities.

2008-05-31 04:53:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...thieves looking to cash in on the rising price of copper. It was only a matter of time before the same thing happened to the fuel tanks on our vehicles Neil Cavuto ran a story on Fox's "Cavuto World" today about thieves who are even going so far as to drill into tanks in an effort to steal a vehicle's fuel. Gasoline, Dielsel and even greasy...
 
Tags: oil, oil tanks, thieves, fuel, fuel cap, tanks, fuel tanks, fuel thefts, thieves plenty
 
 
 
 
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Picture of Camera Thieves Uploaded by Eye-Fi

2008-06-05 15:09:06 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
 
...thieves apparently wandered by an open access point with the same SSID as one that DeLauzon had configured for use, and pictures of her baby and the thieves were uploaded to her picture-sharing account. Nifty This is reminiscent of another recent story in which an Apple Store employee was able to use Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard's Back to My Mac...
 
Tags: thieves, delauzon, camera, alison delauzon, recent story, story, apple store employee, equipment bag, bag
 
 
 
 
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Thieves steal four Diocese of Providence computers

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2008-02-04 08:48:02 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...thieves broke into the Chancery of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence and stolen four desktop computers, one of which contained sensitive personal information belonging to current and former Catholic school employees Reference URL The Diocese of Providence online announcement The Providence Journal online story Report Credit The...
 
Tags: diocese, providence, computers, roman catholic diocese, catholic school employees, employees, providence police department, police, catholic schools office
 
 
 
 
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Data thieves steal credit card data from supermarket chain

2008-03-17 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
Data thieves broke into computers at supermarket chains Hannaford Brothers and Sweetbay, stealing an estimated 4.2 million credit and debit card numbers, Hannaford said Monday
 
Tags: data thieves, debit card, million credit, sweetbay, hannaford, monday, computers
 
 
 
 
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Laptop thieves foiled by tracking system

2008-04-03 00:00:00 by HASH0x8472f5c in Network World on Security
 
Laptop tracking systems do work, and Absolute Software has a real-world example to add to its PR arsenal. The security tracking company's LoJack system has been used to catch alleged laptop thieves at a U.S. airport
 
Tags: laptop thieves, laptop, absolute software, lojack system, real-world, airport, systems, security, arsenal
 
 
 
 
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Foil Identity Thieves

2008-04-07 23:30:00 by HASH0x8b45568 in Wired Security
 
Find out how to foil identity thieves with Wired.com's How-To Wiki
 
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Laptop stolen in Royal Bolton Hospital break-in

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2007-12-19 15:24:44 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Thieves broke into the department for thoracic care and stole a laptop that contained confidential personal information belonging to patients that receive or have received oxygen treatments at home Reference URL The Bolton New Story Report Credit Paul Keaveny from The Bolton News Response From the online source cited above A COMPUTER...
 
Tags: confidential personal information, personal information, royal bolton hospital, hospital, sensitive personal information, bolton, information, information security, share patient information
 
 
 
 
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ARCO gas pumps targeted by fraudsters

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2007-12-27 13:58:30 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...thieves has installed an unknown electronic data capture device on one or more gas pumps at one or more ARCO gas stations for the purpose of stealing customers' money. Monetary losses have already surpassed $30,000, with unauthorized withdrawls taking place all across the U.S Reference URL KNBC-TV News Story KCAL 9 News Story Whittier Daily...
 
Tags: arco gas pumps, pumps, gas pumps, arco, gas stations, arco gas stations, card, debit card identification, creditdebit card data
 
 
 
 
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Stolen Bolton Hospitals Laptop affects cancer patients

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2008-02-04 10:47:22 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Thieves struck in October - but hospital bosses only made details of the incident public yesterday Evan] I hope that the "hospital bosses" notified the victims much sooner There is no evidence at all that whoever took the computers took them for the data. These machines were valuable, portable objects. The theft of computer equipment plagues...