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Follow up to Pfizer data loss / breach
From: Henry Brown <hbrown () knology net>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 07:09:25 -0500
From Newsday.com Report: Pfizer waited weeks to notify employees of data breach Pfizer Inc. let several weeks pass before informing 17,000 current and former employees that their personal information had been posted to the Internet, according to a letter from the company. Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal released a copy of the letter Friday, telling The Day newspaper of New London that he will press Pfizer to explain the delay. The data, which included Social Security numbers and some additional information, was discovered on April 18 when a computer consultant found sensitive information on a peer-to-peer network. A Pfizer investigation determined the security breach had occurred about three weeks earlier when an employee's spouse used a company laptop computer to install unauthorized software and access a file-sharing network. ... http://tinyurl.com/33habe _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 213 million compromised records in 720 incidents over 7 years.
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