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Laptop with Hewlett-Packard employees' ID stolen (fwd)
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 08:33:57 -0500 (EST)
(follow-up to yesterday's HP retirees story) Courtesy InfoSec News <isn () c4i org> http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/14162732.htm By Nicole C. Wong Mercury News Mar. 22, 2006 A Fidelity Investments laptop that contained the names, addresses, Social Security numbers, birth dates, compensation and other information for 196,000 current and former Hewlett-Packard employees participating in the company-sponsored retirement plan was stolen a week ago, the two companies confirmed Wednesday. Fidelity sent e-mails and letters overnight to the retirement plan participants notifying them of the security breach. The Boston-based financial services company, which administers HP's defined benefit pension plan and 401k retirement plan, has subsequently stepped up monitoring of its HP accounts and added more authentication measures so people must provide extra personal information to access their accounts. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/errata/dataloss/
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