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Armstrong World Industries employee data lost
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 15:00:38 -0400 (EDT)
http://local.lancasteronline.com/4/24293 By Patrick Burns, Intelligencer Journal Staff Published: Jul 25, 2006 8:09 AM EST LANCASTER COUNTY, PA - Armstrong World Industries informed workers last week that a thief had stolen a laptop computer containing personal information on about 12,000 current and former employees. A company memo sent July 20 from Armstrong's Lancaster headquarters said the stolen laptop had been in the possession of an employee of Deloitte & Touche LLP, a firm that conducts regular internal audits for Armstrong. F. Nicholas Grasberger III, Armstrong senior vice president and chief financial officer, said the personal information on the stolen laptop contained names, home addresses, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, employee identification numbers, annual salary/hourly wage data and the bank account numbers of employees who have their checks directly deposited. "We sincerely apologize for the incident and its associated risk," Grasberger's two-page memo stated. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/errata/dataloss/
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