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AT&T management staff data on stolen laptop
From: rchick <rchicker () etiolated org>
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 20:15:12 -0400
June 04, 2008 http://www.scmagazineus.com/ATT-management-staff-data-on-stolen-laptop/article/110884/ An undisclosed number of management-level workers at AT&T have been notified that their personal information was stored unencrypted on a stolen laptop. The laptop was stolen May 15 from the car of an employee, Walt Sharp, a spokesman for AT&T, told SCMagazineUS.com on Wednesday. The data on the computer was not encrypted -- a violation of company policy -- and included names, Social Security numbers and in some cases, salary and bonus information. Sharp said the company would not disclose the number of affected individuals, but there is no reason to believe any of the data was being targeted when the machine was stolen. "Usually these are property crimes in which the drive is wiped clean and resold for profit," he said. The employee who was in possession of the laptop when it was stolen has been disciplined. "There are a number of rules governing the handling of encrypted material and the mobile devices handling that material that employees must follow," Sharp said. "It is up to the employee to ensure that any sensitive material is encrypted." [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tenable Network Security offers data leakage and compliance monitoring solutions for large and small networks. Scan your network and monitor your traffic to find the data needing protection before it leaks out! http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/compliance.shtml
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