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Computer With Boeing Employee Info Stolen
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| 11/18/2005
| KOMO Staff & News Services
Posted on 11/18/2005 7:09:39 PM PST by sionnsar
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I am so glad I do not work for a "Chicago-based" corporation.
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posted on
11/18/2005 7:09:40 PM PST
by
sionnsar
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posted on
11/18/2005 7:10:11 PM PST
by
sionnsar
(†trad-anglican.faithweb.com† || (To Libs:) You are failing to celebrate MY diversity! || Iran Azadi)
To: sionnsar
Great. My BIL and half my neighbors work for Boeing.
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posted on
11/18/2005 7:21:45 PM PST
by
Not A Snowbird
(Official RKBA Landscaper and Arborist, Duchess of Green Leafy Things)
To: sionnsar
I'm waiting to be notified as required under California law.
JSL
To: sionnsar
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. "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."
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posted on
11/18/2005 7:46:24 PM PST
by
solitas
(So what if I support an OS that has fewer flaws than yours? 'Mystic' dual 500 G4's, OSX.4.2)
To: SandyInSeattle
Better tell them to check out Esperian.com and put a fraud alert on their credit.
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posted on
11/18/2005 7:48:38 PM PST
by
phantomworker
(A new day! Begin it serenely; with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense!)
To: sionnsar
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 Well of course they have no evidence that the info was accessed since the computer is no longer in their posession.
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posted on
11/18/2005 7:52:02 PM PST
by
Rodney King
(No, we can't all just get along.)
To: Rodney King
Well of course they have no evidence that the info was accessed since the computer is no longer in their posession. Good point.
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posted on
11/18/2005 8:03:11 PM PST
by
phantomworker
(A new day! Begin it serenely; with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense!)
To: sionnsar
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.
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posted on
11/18/2005 8:12:11 PM PST
by
Cedar
To: solitas
"Yeah, well, gee, uh - here's a bunch of credit card anti-fraud and identity-theft enrollment links. 161,000 employees affected, but we're working on that it never happens again.
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posted on
11/18/2005 8:12:46 PM PST
by
phantomworker
(A new day! Begin it serenely; with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense!)
To: Cedar
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.
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posted on
11/18/2005 9:07:59 PM PST
by
Lexinom
To: sionnsar
And why would all this data be on an "accessible" computer and its hard drive? == rather than stored on a mag disk in a fully secured location?
It sounds as if it was on a PC somewhere in Boeing hdqtrs.
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posted on
11/18/2005 9:13:07 PM PST
by
vox_freedom
(Fear no evil)
To: vox_freedom
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posted on
11/18/2005 9:17:42 PM PST
by
vox_freedom
(Fear no evil)
To: vox_freedom
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. [snip]
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.
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posted on
11/18/2005 9:21:58 PM PST
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: Lexinom; vox_freedom
(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...
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posted on
11/18/2005 9:37:22 PM PST
by
Cedar
To: sionnsar
Funny, we were just talking about this today at work. More and more Boeing employees are choosing laptops over towers. And few are taking the proper precautions to protect their data.
To: Cedar
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.
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posted on
11/20/2005 7:23:24 PM PST
by
vox_freedom
(Fear no evil)
To: vox_freedom
Un...believeable! Boeing employee data on a laptop 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.
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posted on
11/20/2005 7:30:48 PM PST
by
r9etb
To: NavyCanDo
And few are taking the proper precautions to protect their data. 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.
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posted on
11/20/2005 7:32:25 PM PST
by
r9etb
To: grey_whiskers
This attitude again demonstrates that the ranks of executives are disproportionately populated by vermin. 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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posted on
11/20/2005 7:35:54 PM PST
by
r9etb
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