Pfizer: 17,000 Employees Suffer Privacy Breach

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Courtesy abrandt _at_ gmac.com

http://www.pharmalot.com/2007/06/pfizer-17000-employees-suffer-privacy-breach
http://doj.nh.gov/consumer/pdf/Pfizer2.pdf

You read it here first. The June 1 letter from Lisa Goldman in Pfizer.s 
privacy office has been arriving in mail boxes over the past few days, and 
the news for thousands of current and former employees isn't good - there 
was an unauthorized breach of privacy data, including names and social 
security numbers. The drugmaker is offering a free year.s worth of credit 
monitoring. Here's an excerpt:

"The information was stored on a Pfizer laptop computer that was provided 
to a Pfizer colleague for use in her home. Due to the the unauthorized 
installation of certain file sharing software on the laptop, files stored 
in the laptop containing names, social security numbers, and in some 
instances, addresses and bonus information of approximately 17,000 present 
and former Pfizer colleagues, were exposed to one or more third parties. 
Our investigation revealed that certain files containing your data were 
accessed and copied..

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