NC: FairPoint probes on security breach

[lyger <lyger () attrition org>]

http://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/stories/2009/04/20/daily11.html

FairPoint Communications Inc. says a worker.s failure to abide by security 
precautions caused a portable data-storage device containing employee 
information to disappear from an undisclosed FairPoint office.

The device contained information for all current FairPoint employees and 
some former employees, or about 4,400 individuals in total.

Such data may have included names, home addresses and phone numbers, 
Social Security numbers, birth dates and certain compensation and 
employment information.

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