(Yet Another) Lost Ernst & Young Laptop Exposes IBM Staff

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via The Register (again :-)

[snip]

Ernst & Young has lost another laptop containting the social security numbers and other personal information of its 
clients' employees. This time, the incident puts thousands of IBM workers at risk.

Ex-IBM employees are also affected.

The Register has learned that the laptop was stolen from an Ernst & Young employee's car in January. The employee 
handled some of the tax functions Ernst & Young does for IBM's workers who have been stationed overseas at one time or 
another during their careers. As a result of the theft, the names, dates of birth, genders, family sizes, SSNs and tax 
identifiers for IBM employees have been exposed.

[snip]

More:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/15/ernstyoung_ibm_laptop/

- ferg


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