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[Update?] Philip Morris ID Theft Alert
From: "Dissent" <Dissent () pogowasright org>
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:09:01 -0500 (EST)
[Note: I think that this news item is probably part of the Towers Perrin breach reported previously on DL, but more details are needed.] http://www.wric.com/Global/story.asp?S=5924191 Thousands of local Philip Morris workers could be at risk of identity theft. Philip Morris is warning thousands of local workers their personal information may have been accessed. The company began alerting employees this week that laptop computers have been stolen that included names, salaries and social security numbers of employees. These laptops were taken from the offices of a New York City consulting firm that handles benefit programs for Philip Morris. --- Privacy-related news and resources: http://www.pogowasright.org Privacy news headlines feed: http://www.pogowasright.org/backend/pogowasright.rss _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 143 million compromised records in 530 incidents over 7 years.
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