RE: (Yet Another) Lost Ernst & Young Laptop Exposes IBM Staff

[Blanchard_Michael () emc com]

 I don't' get it.... Why aren't people heading over to these places with torches and pitchforks?  How many friggin 
times does a "laptop" have to be stolen with SS#'s and other confidential information have to get stolen before people 
realize that this type of data should never, ever, EVER be placed on a laptop for ANY reason....  


Michael P. Blanchard 
Antivirus / Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, MCSE, MCP+I 
Office of Information Security & Risk Management 
EMC ² Corporation 
4400 Computer Dr. 
Westboro, MA 01580 


-----Original Message-----
From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On Behalf Of Fergie
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 7:01 PM
To: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: [funsec] (Yet Another) Lost Ernst & Young Laptop Exposes IBM Staff

Via The Register (again :-)

[snip]

Ernst & Young has lost another laptop containting the social security numbers and other personal information of its 
clients' employees. This time, the incident puts thousands of IBM workers at risk.

Ex-IBM employees are also affected.

The Register has learned that the laptop was stolen from an Ernst & Young employee's car in January. The employee 
handled some of the tax functions Ernst & Young does for IBM's workers who have been stationed overseas at one time or 
another during their careers. As a result of the theft, the names, dates of birth, genders, family sizes, SSNs and tax 
identifiers for IBM employees have been exposed.

[snip]

More:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/15/ernstyoung_ibm_laptop/

- ferg


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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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