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Laptop Computer Stolen From Vendor That Manages Job Applicant Data for Gap Inc.
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:40:54 +0000 (UTC)
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/AQF07328092007-1.htm Gap Inc. today announced that a laptop containing the personal information of certain job applicants was recently stolen from the offices of an experienced third-party vendor that manages job applicant data for Gap Inc. The company has begun notifying the job applicants whose Social Security numbers were included in the information on the laptop and is offering them a year of free credit monitoring services with fraud resolution assistance, along with a dedicated 24-hour helpline. Personal data for approximately 800,000 people who applied online or by phone for store positions at one of Gap Inc.'s brands between July 2006 and June 2007 was contained on the stolen laptop. Contrary to the company's agreement with the vendor, the information on the laptop was not encrypted. The company has no reason to believe the data contained on the computer was the target of the theft or that the personal information has been accessed or used improperly. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tenable Network Security offers data leakage and compliance monitoring solutions for large and small networks. Scan your network and monitor your traffic to find the data needing protection before it leaks out! http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/compliance.shtml
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