[Dataloss] Semtech Corporation data loss

[Henry Brown]

Semtech Corporation is a leading supplier of high-quality analog and 
mixed-signal semiconductor products. The company is dedicated to 
providing customers with proprietary solutions and breakthrough 
technology in power management, protection, advanced communications, 
human interface, test & measurement, as well as wireless and sensing 
products. The Company's integrated circuits (ICs) are employed in 
communications, computer and computer-peripheral, automated test 
equipment, industrial and other commercial applications.


http://www.pacbiztimes.com/index.cfm?go2=articles/wk_100807b
Semtech faces identity-theft threat

By Stephen Nellis
Staff Writer
Oct. 8, 2007

Semtech has notified its U.S. employees of a potential breach of their 
personal data.

The Camarillo-based chipmaker said a laptop computer and other personal 
belongings were stolen from one of its vendors. The computer was not 
stolen from a Semtech facility, but “may have contained computerized 
data relating to Semtech employees.”

Semtech notified all of its U.S. employees in late September, although 
the company declined to say how many of its 690 employees are based in 
the United States. The firm also declined to name the vendor from whom 
the computer was stolen.

The vendor that lost the laptop will pay for identity-theft protection 
services for all of Semtech’s employees for one year.

Semtech declined to provide further details of the incident, such as 
what personal employee data may have been put at risk, when the theft 
happened or how long it took the company to inform its workers of the 
potential breach.

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