Stock & Option Solutions (SOS) lost a laptop that contained Social Security Numbers and other Personally identifiable information (PII) of 51,000 Agilent employees. Agilent had hired SOS to make sure that money management firm Smith Barney had properly transferred Agilent employee stock data to a new management firm, Fidelity Investments. The SOS employee who was working on the project had all the employee data stored on a laptop that had no safeguards (e.g. encryption) in place. :-(
Read more at: http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_8660115?source=rss I hope this deters companies from outsourcing processing of such confidential data to contractors who lack proper controls to protect customer's data. _______________________________________________ FDE mailing list [email protected] http://www.xml-dev.com/mailman/listinfo/fde
