[Infowarrior] - Boeing laptop theft: 161K affected

[Richard Forno]

(via RSK)

 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20061213/100038.shtml

 Once, Twice, Three Times A Loser... Wait, Make That Four

Excerpt:

 Last November, we wondered exactly why a Boeing employee was
 carrying around a laptop containing the names, birth dates, Social
 Security numbers and bank account info of 161,000 thousand current
 and former employees. That laptop was, of course, stolen. That
 breach didn't seem to teach the company anything, as five months
 later, another laptop was stolen, though it had info on "only"
 3,600 workers. Another one was stolen from an employee's home last
 month, containing info on 762 people. But, in a remarkable show
 of hardheadedness, Boeing says a laptop containing the information
 of a staggering 382,000 current and former employees was stolen from
 an employee's car earlier this month.