40, 000 BP Workers Exposed in (Yet Another) Ernst & Young Laptop Loss

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

Via El Reg.

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Like sands through the hourglass, these are The Days of Ernst & Young laptop loss. Yes, friends, The Register can 
confirm that BP has been added to the list of Ernst & Young customers whose personal data has been exposed after a 
laptop theft. BP joins Sun Microsystems, Cisco and IBM in this not so exclusive club.

Ernst & Young has sent out a letter to all 38,000 BP employees in the US, telling them that a laptop theft had exposed 
their names and social security numbers. To keep the BP staff's mind at ease, Ernst & Young said that the file name 
containing their info did not indicate what type of information was on the laptop, and the laptop was password 
protected. Phew!

Ernst & Young confirmed that this is the very same laptop that held data on the Sun, Cisco and IBM workers. All of 
these data losses were revealed by us in a set of exclusive stories. Ernst & Young also recently lost four more laptops 
in Miami, although it has not said which customers were affected in those incidents.

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More:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/23/ey_bp_laptop/

- ferg


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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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