Missing laptop, data could affect Q-C Oscar Mayer employees

[lyger <lyger () attrition org>]

http://www.qctimes.com/articles/2008/03/03/news/local/doc47cc7e171b8bd249394271.txt?sPos=2

A company-owned laptop computer was stolen from an employee of Kraft Foods 
traveling on company business.

And now 20,000 employees nationwide have received letters telling them 
that their personal information was stored on the missing laptop and they 
could be vulnerable to some type of identity theft.

That group of 20,000 includes employees from Davenport.s Kraft Oscar Mayer 
plant. It is unknown how many employees of the Davenport facility were 
affected. The plant employs about 1,700 people.

Kraft Foods spokeswoman Cathy Pernu said the theft took place in 
mid-January and involved an employee who was working on a systems project. 
"It had migrating information that was transferring from one computer to 
another."

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