Equifax: Company laptop with employee info stolen

[highwayman]

Interesting how there is a string of these thefts going on...


http://www.katu.com/stories/86967.html

ATLANTA - A possible identity theft scare is hitting close to home at one of the nation's big credit bureaus.
A little more than half of the workers at Equifax could be affected by the theft of a company laptop containing employee names and Social Security numbers.

Equifax is one of the nation's three major credit bureaus. A spokesman says all of the Atlanta-based company's workers were notified a little more than a week after the theft.

The spokesman says "it would be very difficult" for anyone to use the information because of the way it was stored.

The company says it has provided workers free access to its credit monitoring service.

The spokesman says the worker whose laptop was stolen near London last month has been disciplined. No company information is supposed to be stored on a hard drive.

 

[Gonz]

I got my letter from the DoD last week. It's already too late.

 

[Professur]

he worker whose laptop was stolen near London last month has been disciplined. No company information is supposed to be stored on a hard drive.

How about charged with theft? How about made responable for calling each and every single person who's info was stolen?

 

[Gato_Solo]

How about charged with theft? How about made responable for calling each and every single person who's info was stolen?

How about beaten about the head and shoulders with a blunt object?

 

[unclehobart]

Howabout making laptops with LOJACK so the effing thing can be found?

 

[highwayman]

How about not up loading the info onto the friggin things in the first place and using the internet to access the information under review...