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Posted on 11/18/2005 7:09:39 PM PST by sionnsar
CHICAGO - A computer that contained Social Security numbers and other personal information for 161,000 current and former Boeing Co. employees was stolen, the company said Friday.
Boeing said it had no evidence that any of the employee information - which included birthdays and banking information in some cases - was accessed or misused. It added that no sensitive company information or supplier or customer data was stored on the computer, which was owned by the company but stolen from a non-Boeing site.
Chicago-based Boeing said it is in the process of notifying affected employees of the security breach and helping them enroll in fraud-alert programs at the nation's three major credit reporting agencies.
The company said it is investigating the theft along with law enforcement authorities.
"We are taking a number of steps to minimize any potential damage that could result from this violation of our security procedures," Rick Stephens, senior vice president of human resources and administration, said in a statement.
Great. My BIL and half my neighbors work for Boeing.
I'm waiting to be notified as required under California law.
JSL
"Yeah, well, gee, uh - here's a bunch of credit card anti-fraud and identity-theft enrollment links... good luck and remember: you can't sue us because it's written into the 'terms of employment' you agreed to work under."
Better tell them to check out Esperian.com and put a fraud alert on their credit.
Well of course they have no evidence that the info was accessed since the computer is no longer in their posession.
Good point.
Seems like a computer with important information would be deserving of a little more security...maybe chained to the wall? Guard dog? Alarm system when moved over 5 inches?
I don't know....just never understand how these very important computers get stolen. Not just the hard drive copied, but entire computers stolen. Even CIA stuff.
If it's that important, I say pour concrete around it.
161,000 employees affected, but we're working on that it never happens again.
What you do with that type of information is keep it on a REAL computer like a Tandem Nonstop Integrity Server or IBM/390, and you only access the information with a secure connection. Nobody can walk out with one of those under their coat.
Un...believeable! Boeing employee data on a laptop
It added that no sensitive company information or supplier or customer data was stored on the computer, which was owned by the company but stolen from a non-Boeing site.
Well thank goodness nothing important like supplier or customer data was stolen, just all the makings of ID theft for all 161,000 employees.
This attitude again demonstrates that the ranks of executives are disproportionately populated by vermin.
(from link at vox_freedom's post): "The laptop was not stolen from a Boeing site, the company said. They did not say where the theft took place."
Turns out it was even a laptop! Sounds like someone taking their laptop home ended up being robbed...
And, begging the question here, why in the world would the Boeing Company allow this amount of personal (er personnel) data to be stored on a single laptop under any circumstances???
It is outrageous.
Sigh. Yeah, I'm sure that whoever put the data there in the first place had a Really Good Reason for doing so. I'm aghast, actually, that it was even possible to get the data -- what possible use would a person with a laptop have for that sort of information?
I suspect a search of said person's bank accounts is likely to show a recent large deposit.
Yeah, but this is bigger than some yutz being careless with a laptop. What possible use would he/she have had for that particular information, on a laptop? Something's malodorous.
Boeing's executive-rank vermin have certainly been on display over the past few years. This, however, is a seriously strange situation that's not necessarily an executive problem. Namely, why would anybody be bouncing around with all of that information on their personal-use laptop in the first place? What possible use is it? There are supposed to be safeguards for that sort of data, and I strongly doubt that it was actually downloaded "with permission."
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