[sionnsar]

I am so glad I do not work for a "Chicago-based" corporation.

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[Not A Snowbird]

Great. My BIL and half my neighbors work for Boeing.

[free_at_jsl.com]

I'm waiting to be notified as required under California law.

JSL

[solitas]

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."

[Rodney King]

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.

[Cedar]

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.

[vox_freedom]

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.

[NavyCanDo]

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.

[CJinVA]

This same thing happened to SAIC employees this year. Now Boeing. I worked for SAIC and my wife works for Boeing. Both of us have had our social security numbers ripped off at each company. My SS is in the Boeing info and her SS is in the SAIC info.