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[Update - Towers Perrin] Random House, American Express?
From: "Dissent" <Dissent () pogowasright org>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:55:57 -0500 (EST)
So far, this is the only published reference I've found to Random House and AmEx being affected by the Towers Perrin breach. Maybe more will be published within the next few days... http://www.gawker.com/news/random-house/random-house-to-employees-oops-we-lost-your-social-our-bad-231384.php [...] Dear Random House Employee or former Employee: I write to inform you about a matter of concern that came to our attention recently. In 2003, Bertelsmann engaged the services of the consulting firm Towers Perrin to work on a project on behalf of all Bertelsmann companies in the United States, including Random House. For the purposes of this project, Towers Perrin had access to employee data, including names, Social Security numbers, addresses, dates of birth and other information related to your employment, but no bank or credit card information. Bertelsmann was recently informed by Towers Perrin that computers which may have contained this data were stolen from their offices on approximately November 27, 2006. The suspect, an employee of Towers Perrin, has subsequently been arrested, but the computers themselves have not yet been retrieved. As an employee of record at Random House in December 2004, your employee information may have been included in this data on the stolen computers. Only individuals who may have been affected by this incident are receiving information regarding the possible data loss. [...] Update: All Amex employees apparently received a near-identical memo yesterday; one suspects that "there's more to this than they're letting on" (fwiw). -- 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 145 million compromised records in 547 incidents over 7 years.
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