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BP employee loses laptop containing data on 13, 000 oil spill claimants
From: security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 02:31:37 -0500 (CDT)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org> http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9215316/BP_employee_loses_laptop_containing_data_on_13_000_oil_spill_claimants By Jaikumar Vijayan Computerworld March 29, 2011 The personal information of 13,000 individuals who had filed compensation claims with BP after last year's disastrous oil spill may have been potentially compromised after a laptop containing the data was lost by a BP employee. The information, which had been stored in an unencrypted fashion on the missing computer, included the names, Social Security numbers, addresses, phone numbers, and dates of birth of those who filed claims related to the Deepwater Horizon accident. BP said in a statment that the personal information had been stored in a spreadsheet maintained by the company for the purposes of tracking claims arising from the accident. "The lost laptop was immediately reported to law enforcement authorities and BP security, but has not been located despite a thorough search," BP said on Tuesday. The information was part of a claims process that was implemented before BP had established its Gulf Coast Claims Facility. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () datalossdb org) Archived at http://seclists.org/dataloss/ Unsubscribe at http://datalossdb.org/mailing_list Learn encryption strategies that manage risk and shore up compliance. Download Article 1 of CREDANT Technologies' The Essentials Series: Endpoint Data Encryption That Actually Works http://credant.com/campaigns/realtime2/gap-LP1/
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