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Re: [privacy] FTC Laptop Theft Exposes Consumer Data
From: Blanchard_Michael () emc com
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 14:15:40 -0400
Hehehe.... Be scared if you get notified that your info was stolen.... "The PCs contained data on about 110 people that was "gathered in law enforcement investigations and included, variously, names, addresses, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, and in some instances, financial account numbers."" ... "The agency also said it would offer affected individuals one year of free credit monitoring." Michael P. Blanchard Antivirus / Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, CCSA-NGX, MCSE Office of Information Security & Risk Management EMC ² Corporation 4400 Computer Dr. Westboro, MA 01580 -----Original Message----- From: Fergie [mailto:fergdawg () netzero net] Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 12:38 PM To: privacy () whitestar linuxbox org Subject: [privacy] FTC Laptop Theft Exposes Consumer Data ...and the beat goes on. Unbelievable. Hat-tip, Alex. Brian Krebs: [snip] The Federal Trade Commission -- an agency whose mission includes consumer protection and occasionally involves suing companies for negligence in protecting customer information -- today disclosed a recent theft of two laptop computers containing personal and financial data on consumers. In a statement, the FTC said two employee laptops were stolen from a locked vehicle. The PCs contained data on about 110 people that was "gathered in law enforcement investigations and included, variously, names, addresses, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, and in some instances, financial account numbers." The commission said it has "no reason to believe the information on the laptops, as opposed to the laptops themselves, was the target of the theft. In addition, the stolen laptops were password protected and the personal information was a very small part of several thousand files contained in one of the laptops." The agency also said it would offer affected individuals one year of free credit monitoring. [snip] More here: http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2006/06/ftc_laptop_theft_exposes_ consu.html - ferg -- "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/ _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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