[Dataloss] Oops: Auditor Loses McAfee Employee Data (fwd)

[lyger]

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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 19:49:42 GMT
Subject: Oops:  Auditor Loses McAfee Employee Data

Via C|Net News.

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An external auditor lost a CD with information on thousands of current and 
former McAfee employees, putting them at risk of identity fraud.

The disc was lost on Dec. 15 by Deloitte & Touche USA, McAfee spokeswoman 
Siobhan MacDermott said Thursday. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based security 
software company was first notified on Jan. 11, and on Jan. 30, it received 
particulars of the data that may have been on the CD, MacDermott said.

The disc contained personal details on all current U.S. and Canadian McAfee 
workers hired prior to April 2005 and on about 6,000 former employees in the 
same region, MacDermott said. (The security company currently has approximately 
3,290 employees worldwide.) The information wasn't encrypted and potentially 
includes names, social security numbers and stock holdings in McAfee.

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More:
http://news.com.com/2100-1029_3-6042544.html