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September 20, 2007
Pfizer Confirms Third Breach
Well, here's the story of yet another data breach. Healthcare giant Pfizer announced its third (yes, THIRD!) breach involving employee data.
"Pfizer Inc. appears to be having an especially hard time of late keeping its employee data secure. The company today confirmed that as many as 34,000 of its employees may be at risk of identity theft after a former employee illegally accessed and download copies of confidential information from a Pfizer computer system without the company’s knowledge. The compromised information included, names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, phone numbers and bank and credit card information."
I believe that it is the obligation of a company to protect the confidentiality and privacy of customer & employee data at all times. A big part of this responsibility is to ensure that files and data are secured and only authorized people have access to it.
On an FTP server, this job falls to the network administer who can set up specific permissions to allow certain people to access certain folders and data (and thus blocking everyone else from accessing that same data).
After all, how would you feel if your social security number, bank account and credit card number were stolen? I know that identity theft scares the $hit out of me!
Posted by Hugh Garber at September 20, 2007 07:02 AM digg this add to del.icio.us add to My Web Furl this page
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