[privacy] CPA Group Says Data on 330,000 Members Missing

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

Via ComputerWorld.

[snip]

Adding to the lengthening list of organizations reporting data
compromises, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
(AICPA) today [7 June 2006] confirmed that a computer hard drive
containing the unencrypted names, addresses and Social Security numbers
of nearly all of its 330,000 members has been missing since February.

The hard drive had been accidentally damaged by an AICPA employee and
was sent out for repair to an external data-recovery service in
violation of the AICPA's policies, said Joel Allegretti, a spokesman
for the New York-based organization. It was on its way back to the
AICPA via FedEx but failed to arrive. Allegretti did not say when
exactly the drive went missing except to note that the package
containing it was due back at the AICPA "toward the end of February."

It took the organization until March 31 to "re-create the drive" and
determine what data it contained. The AICPA began notifying affected
members of the potential compromise of their personal data on May 8 and
has since completed the task, Allegretti said.

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More here:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9001030

- ferg


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