PC with 70,000 private records was stolen from a Ford facility. Names, Social Security numbers and etc. are now compromised.
Ford Motor Co. informed about 70,000 active and former white-collar employees that a computer with company data, including Social Security numbers, was stolen from a Ford facility. In an e-mail, Joe Laymon, group vice president for human resources, told staffers that their personal information may have been compromised, although the company had "no evidence that there has been identity theft or misuse of employee information."
Laymon said in the e-mail that the company is taking precautionary steps and urges the affected employees to take measures to help safeguard their personal information. News of the possible security breach came a week after the company informed its white-collar employees and retirees that it would reduce their health-care benefits. Ford has 40,000 salaried workers in North America.
Ford spokeswoman Kathleen Vokes said that there was no product, supplier, customer, engineering or financial information on the computer. She said Ford is working with law enforcement on the investigation.
Р’В«Private data should be stored in encrypted form, because it reduces all kinds of unauthorized access risks. Ford incident demonstrates that company doesn't have comprehensive information security policy and physical threats haven't been considered by security staff", — commented Denis Zenkin, the Marketing Director of InfoWatch company.
Source: PR Web
