Hortica Alerting Public to Loss of Backup Tapes

[lyger <lyger () attrition org>]

http://www.pr-inside.com/hortica-alerting-public-to-loss-of-r87434.htm

Florists' Mutual Insurance Company (Hortica), an Illinois-based provider 
of employee benefits and insurance to companies in the horticultural 
industry, today announced that a locked shipping case containing magnetic 
backup tapes cannot be located. Hortica believes that the backup tapes 
contained personal information including names, Social Security numbers, 
drivers' license numbers, and/or bank account numbers.

The locked shipping case was being transported by UPS from a secure 
offsite facility to the company's Illinois headquarters. UPS informed 
Hortica that the shipping case could not be
located, and Hortica has been working with UPS in an attempt to locate the 
case. On April 5, 2007, UPS notified Hortica that all internal recovery 
processes had been exhausted and the shipping case could not be located.

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