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Data Breach No. 4 Comes From Outside Pfizer
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:14:07 +0000 (UTC)
http://www.theday.com/re.aspx?re=8bd92db3-bb26-4c59-83ac-6c13fd6796fd Pfizer Inc. employees, already wracked by three data breaches this year, have been getting notices in their mailboxes about yet another security problem, this time with no direct connection to the company. The spouses and domestic partners of about 1,800 Pfizer employees, including 23 from Connecticut, learned late last month about a data breach at Wheels Inc., which provides cars to the company, mostly for use by its sales force. It could not be determined how many local residents were affected, but a company spokeswoman pointed out that the Pfizer Global Research & Development benefits package does not include company cars and salespeople do not work out of local offices. The breach at Wheels, first reported by the Pharmalot Web site, released onto the Internet names, addresses, birth dates and driver's license numbers, but not Social Security numbers, according to the company. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tenable Network Security offers data leakage and compliance monitoring solutions for large and small networks. Scan your network and monitor your traffic to find the data needing protection before it leaks out! http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/compliance.shtml
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