Undisclosed Number of Verizon Employees at Risk of ID Theft

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

When it rains, it pours.

Via the C|Net Security Blog.

[snip]

A theft of two laptop computers has put a "significant number" of Verizon Communications' employees at risk of having 
their identities stolen, the company said Wednesday.

The computers were pilfered from a company facility and may contain important personal information, such as Social 
Security numbers, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. Verizon executives told employees in a March 1 
letter that the theft appears to be "a random criminal act" and that the laptops were password-protected, according to 
the Journal.

Verizon executives told the Journal that both current and former employees could be at risk. Verizon is offering 
affected workers free use of a credit monitoring service to help them watch out for identity theft.

[snip]

http://news.com.com/2061-10789_3-6047682.html

- ferg





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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
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