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Undisclosed Number of Verizon Employees at Risk of ID Theft
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 21:40:10 -0500 (EST)
http://news.com.com/2061-10789_3-6047682.html A theft of two laptop computers has put a "significant number" of Verizon Communications' employees at risk of having their identities stolen, the company said Wednesday. The computers were pilfered from a company facility and may contain important personal information, such as Social Security numbers, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. Verizon executives told employees in a March 1 letter that the theft appears to be "a random criminal act" and that the laptops were password-protected, according to the Journal. Verizon executives told the Journal that both current and former employees could be at risk. Verizon is offering affected workers free use of a credit monitoring service to help them watch out for identity theft. http://news.com.com/2061-10789_3-6047682.html _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/errata/dataloss/
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