[privacy] IBM Loses Retirees' Personal Info

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

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Via USA Today (AP).

[snip]

IBM, one of the world's leading providers of encryption and other
data-management technologies, is in the uncomfortable position of trying to
solve its own mystery involving missing computer tapes with sensitive
information about employees and records of customer transactions.

An outside vendor was transporting the tapes from one IBM facility to
another on Feb. 23 when the tapes fell out of a contractor's vehicle in
Westchester County, N.Y., not far from IBM headquarters in Armonk. IBM
representatives went to the scene and couldn't find the tapes, spokesman
Fred McNeese said Tuesday.

The incident surfaced in recent weeks when IBM's human-resources department
wrote to affected workers — primarily former employees — to inform
them. The letter said the tapes held archival information "such as your
Social Security number, your dates of employment with IBM, birth date,
contact information such as your address, and your IBM work history."

IBM also advertised in a local newspaper to ask for the return of the
tapes.

[snip]

More:
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/techinvestor/corporatenews/2007-05-15-ibm-reti
ree-info_N.htm

- - ferg

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.1 (Build 1012)

wj8DBQFGSlVlq1pz9mNUZTMRApFdAKCnEPHa0We6NojXzpiBPO1PFYpSNQCgyE3Z
v/8Iozf5kKEXoGADCIJHrT0=
=84Uh
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----


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

_______________________________________________
privacy mailing list
privacy () whitestar linuxbox org
http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy