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Starbucks Loses Laptops With Worker Data
From: "Dissent" <Dissent () pogowasright org>
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 17:14:23 -0500 (EST)
http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/business/15923874.htm SEATTLE - Starbucks Corp. said Friday it had lost track of four laptop computers, two of which had private information on about 60,000 current and former U.S. employees and fewer than 80 Canadian workers and contractors. The data, which include names, addresses and Social Security numbers, is about three years old, dating prior to December 2003, said Valerie O'Neil, a spokeswoman for the Seattle-based coffee retailer. [...] http://www.starbucks.com/aboutus/pressdesc.asp?id=720 Starbucks Corporation (Nasdaq: SBUX) today announced that four retired (no longer in regular use) laptops have been identified as missing from the Starbucks Corporate Support Center in Seattle. Two of the laptops contained the private information, including names and social security numbers, of nearly 60,000 United States partners (employees) and less than 80 Canadian partners and contractors at all levels employed across the organization prior to Dec.31, 2003. At this time, there is no indication that the private information in question has been misused or that the devices are in the hands of someone intending to misuse the information. These laptops may still be in the possession of Starbucks, however we cannot currently locate them. In accordance with Starbucks standards for information security, the laptops were password protected. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 140 million compromised records in 455 incidents over 6 years.
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