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TX: American pilots protest security breach on company Web site
From: MKEVHILL () aol com
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:02:19 EDT
_http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D8PSQQN80.html_ (http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D8PSQQN80.html) Personal information including Social Security numbers of more than 300 pilots and other employees at American Airlines, including the chief executive, was exposed on a company Web site, according to the pilots' union. The company said it determined that only pilots and union officials saw the information on a password-protected internal site. Union officials said that by searching the site for "AA" and "medical," the roughly 200 results included a 2002 document with personal information on 315 current and former pilots and about 50 others, including CEO Gerard Arpey and his predecessor, Donald Carty. Union President Ralph Hunter said he called Mark Burdette, the company's vice president of employee relations, to report the breach. "I told him what his Social Security number was and where I got it," Hunter said. "He agreed with me that we had a big problem." American, a unit of AMR Corp., disabled the site's search function. Mike Hill ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.
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