Contractor loses IBM employee data
Posted by: Bill Brenner
Information Security Threats, Data Breaches and Identity Theft
IBM has been heavily pushing its encryption and data management products of late, so this news is probably of extreme embarrassment to the company:
The vendor is trying to find missing computer tapes containing sensitive information about employees and records of customer transactions.
According to The Associated Press (AP), an outside vendor was taking the tapes from one IBM plant to another Feb. 23 when they fell out of a contractor’s vehicle in Westchester County, N.Y., near IBM’s headquarters in Armonk. IBM representatives went to the scene and couldn’t find the tapes, spokesman Fred McNeese told the AP Tuesday.
IBM has notified affected workers, mostly former employees. They received a letter from the company acknowledging that the tapes held such data 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 took out an ad in a local newspaper seeking the return of the tapes.
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