theft of thousands of resumes from biotech, pharmaceutical, and health resume databases

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Pam Dixon <pam () pamdixon com>
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 07:07:32 -0800
To: dave () farber net
Subject: privacy study

Hi Dave,

I wanted to pass along to you, in case you think the folks on the IP list
might be interested, that I've just issued a consumer alert regarding the
documented theft of thousands of resumes from biotech, pharmaceutical, and
health resume databases. I issued the report/alert through my site and the
Privacy Rights Clearinghouse.
http://www.pamdixon.com/jobseekerprivacystudyfeb03.htm
http://www.privacyrights.org/new.htm

A person posing as a recruiter took the resumes from July 2002 through
November 2002. He got sued, which is how I found out about it.
Unfortunately, though, people who are looking for jobs in those industries
and who posted resumes on BioView, Medzilla, HireHeath, and possibly other
sites may not have been contacted about the issue. I should also mention
that biotech/parma employers evidently got free access to the purloined
resumes.

Medzilla did the right thing and notified about 2,400 folks about the theft,
which were the people they were sure had their data stolen.

There are some other issues in the report, but that's the gist of it. My
concern is to get the word out to those folks who may be impacted by this.

Regards,

Pam Dixon
Author, journalist
Research fellow, Privacy Foundation








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