Good lord…anther one. I don’t quite know what to think of this trend. Data should at the very least be encrypted if it’s on a mobile device be that a laptop or crackberry. Why we continue to see this is rather disturbing.
Barry Scher, a spokesman for Ahold USA in Quincy, Mass., said the company has notified the retirees about the incident by mail but added that information about the number of affected former employees and the kind of data kept on the laptop is not being made public. “We’re not giving out any numbers to protect our people,” he said.
Scher said the laptop was lost by an employee of Electronic Data Systems, which provides data processing services for the Ahold USA Pension Plan. The laptop was password-protected and contained a file with the personal information of retired participants in the pension plan and of some other former employees of Ahold USA subsidiaries, including Stop & Shop Supermarket Cos., also in Quincy, Mass., according to a company statement.
EDS…hmmm, good ole Ross Perot’s outfit. That doesn’t look good.
[tags]Data Security, Identity Theft, EDS, Ahold USA, Laptop[/tags]