laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
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 Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 6:02 pm Post subject: Starbucks loses 4 laptops with employee data |
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Starbucks loses 4 laptops with employee data
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Starbucks loses 4 laptops with employee data
Nearly 60,000 employees in the United States affected by loss of personal information.
November 4 2006: 8:48 PM EST
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -- Starbucks Corp. on Friday said four laptops, two of which contained the names and Social Security numbers of about 60,000 U.S. employees, are missing from its corporate headquarters.
Scariest tech of 2006
The information on the laptops is from 2003, Starbucks (Charts) said, and includes employees at all levels of the organization. A spokeswoman said about 8 percent of the company's current work force is affected by the issue.
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In addition to the nearly 60,000 U.S. employees, the personal information of about 80 Canadian employees was also on the laptops, which were password protected.
The company said there is no indication the private information has been misused or that the laptops are in the hands of someone intending to misuse the information.
Starbucks is working to notify the employees whose information was believed to be on the missing laptops. It is also offering credit-protection services to those people. |
How many times has this happened in the past few months?? |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 6:13 pm Post subject: |
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People never learn. Keep sensitive and confidential information off your laptops.
Just recently, they found Top Secret information about nuclear weapons research on memory sticks that were found during a drug raid. Turns out an American researcher had been selling the memory sticks to feed her methamphetamine addiction. Yup, they used memory sticks in the laboratories eventhough they supposedly tightened security after a Chinese researcher was arrested for leaking information to China a few years ago. |
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