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GE Laptop With 50, 000 Employee Names, Data Stolen From Hotel
From: "ziplock" <ziplock () pogowasright org>
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 14:36:31 -0400 (EDT)
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=abYZEjwImupI&refer=us Sept. 26 (Bloomberg) -- General Electric Co. said an employee's laptop computer containing the names and Social Security numbers of 50,000 current and former GE workers was stolen from a locked hotel room earlier this month. ``We believe this was a random criminal act,'' GE said in a Sept. 22 letter sent to the affected employees that was obtained by Bloomberg News. There's no indication the data on the laptop and its external hard drive were accessed, company spokesman Russell Wilkerson said today. GE, which is working with law enforcement officials, isn't disclosing the location or day of the theft because the incident is still under investigation, Wilkerson said. General Electric immediately began notifying the employees whose names were on the laptop and offered them one free year of the company's identity- theft and credit-protection monitoring service, Wilkerson said. _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 146 million compromised records in 366 incidents over 6 years.
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