2013 — Sears: An assistant manager was forced to open a Kmart…
Data compromised
Personal information
Technical writeup
An assistant manager was forced to open a Kmart safe and give a thief access to $6,000 in cash and an unencrypted backup disk with a day's worth of customer information. The backup disk contained names, addresses, dates of birth, prescription numbers, prescription providers, insurance cardholder IDs and drug names. The armed robbery occurred on March 17.
Root cause
Portable device theft