40,000 BP workers exposed in Ernst & Young laptop loss

[lyger <lyger () attrition org>]

Chris Walsh cwalsh at cwalsh.org wrote:

According to the report E&Y filed with the NY State Consumer
Protection Board, this laptop (stolen in Hoboken, NJ on 1/4/2006)
contained PII on 84,000 people in all.

We wrote briefly abt this on 3/13 --  http://www.emergentchaos.com/
archives/2006/03/stolen_ernst_and_young_la.html

On Mar 23, 2006, at 3:23 PM, lyger wrote:

> All of these data losses were revealed
> by us in a set of exclusive stories.

Just to clarify, my quote above should be attributed to the story's 
original author:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/23/ey_bp_laptop/

By Ashlee Vance in Mountain View
Published Thursday 23rd March 2006 20:40 GMT
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