[Dataloss] Boeing laptop stolen -- 382,000 IDs lost

[Dissent]

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/295769_boeing13.html

A laptop with personal information on hundreds of thousands of Boeing
Co. employees was stolen earlier this month, and the aerospace company
will inform those potentially affected by the theft in a company
e-mail today.

"In the first week of December, a laptop was stolen from an employee's
car," Boeing spokeswoman Kelly Danaghy said. "That laptop had files
that contained Social Security numbers for about 382,000 past and
present employees, and in most cases it also included a home address,
phone number and date of birth."

There was no reason to believe that any of the stolen information has
been used illegally, she said.

It was unclear Tuesday whether the data was encrypted. No banking or
credit card information was stored in those files, but the company
will provide free three-year credit monitoring for employees whose
personal information was compromised.

[...]


-- 
Privacy-related news and resources: http://www.pogowasright.org
Privacy news headlines feed:
http://www.pogowasright.org/backend/pogowasright.rss