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NY: Bristol-Myers: Tape With Workers' Personal Data Was Stolen
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:00:16 +0000 (UTC)
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200807171514DOWJONESDJONLINE000844_FORTUNE5.htm Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. (BMY) said a backup computer-data tape containing employees' personal information, including Social Security numbers, was stolen recently. The New York drug maker learned of the theft on June 4, and began notifying current and former employees by letter in the past few days, spokeswoman Tracy Furey told Dow Jones Newswires Thursday afternoon. It was the latest in a series of security breaches involving customer or employee data in the corporate world. A Bristol-Myers rival, Pfizer Inc. (PFE), said last year that personal data for some of its current and former employees were exposed. [...] _______________________________________________ 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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