[privacy] Ernst & Young Laptop Loss Exposes 243, 000 Hotels.com Customers

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

This is not the first (or the second, or the third, or.... etc.)
time Ernst & Young has been in the news of sloppy process and
apparent disregard for privacy data protection.

Via The Register:

[snip]

Ernst & Young's laptop loss unit continues to be one of the company's more productive divisions. We learn this week 
that the accounting firm lost a system containing data on 243,000 Hotels.com customers. Hotels.com joins the likes of 
Sun Microsystems, IBM, Cisco, BP and Nokia, which have all had their employees' data exposed by Ernst & Young, as 
revealed here in a series of exclusive stories.

The Register can again exclusively confirm the loss of the Hotels.com customer information after having received a copy 
of a letter mailed out jointly by the web site and Ernst & Young. A Hotels.com spokesman also confirmed the data 
breach, saying Ernst & Young notified the company of the laptop loss on May 3. The laptop in question was stolen from 
an Ernst & Young worker's car in Texas and did have some basic data protection mechanisms.

[snip]

More here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/01/ey_hotels_laptop/

- ferg


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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/

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