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Madoff investors' security may have been breached
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:45:17 +0000 (UTC)
http://www.newsday.com/business/madoff-investors-security-may-have-been-breached-1.1466325?localLinksEnabled=false More than 2,200 Bernard Madoff investors are learning that some of their personal and financial information has potentially been breached after the July theft of a laptop in Dallas, Newsday has learned. The names, addresses, Social Security numbers and some Madoff account information on 2,246 investors was contained in a computer stolen from the car of an employee of AlixPartners Llp, the consulting firm that has been processing victims' claims in the Ponzi scheme, a company spokesman, Tim Yost, said Tuesday. Yost said the laptop was password-protected and not targeted, but was taken in what Dallas police said was a "smash and grab" series of thefts on one particular night at a parking lot. "We have no reason to believe it [investor data] has been compromised," Yost said. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () datalossdb org) Get business, compliance, IT and security staff on the same page with CREDANT Technologies: The Shortcut Guide to Understanding Data Protection from Four Critical Perspectives. The eBook begins with considerations important to executives and business leaders. http://www.credant.com/campaigns/ebook-chpt-one-web.php
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