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Another stolen data tape--this time it's Bristol-Myers
It's almost an everyday occurrence: data lost through security lapses of one type or another. The latest company with lax controls was drugmaker Bristol-Myers Squibb. Company officials last week confirmed that a non-encrypted backup tape containing the personal data of current and former employees and their dependents was stolen on June 4 from a delivery truck.
The stolen computer tape included the names, addresses, birthdays, Social Security numbers, marital status, bank account numbers, salaries, and hiring and termination/retirement dates of the affected employees. Not much else that a identify thief could ask for.
Company spokeswoman Laura Hortas, in a statement that may offer little consolation to Bristol-Myers employees, said the company is "committed to protecting the privacy and security of employee and dependent information." On a positive note, the data on the missing backup tape was protected by a 12-character password and a jumbled text format that might make it had for the average, run-of-the-mill thief to access.
For more on the data theft:
- See this Computerworld article
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