June 18th, 2007 | Published in All Articles, Data Loss, News Articles
(From: Computerworld) Written By Jaikumar Vijayan
Data on about 15,700 of the workers was actually accessed and copied off of the laptop by an unknown number of people on a peer-to-peer (P2P) network New York-based Pfizer said in letters that it sent to affected employees and to state attorneys general.
June 12th, 2007 | Published in All Articles, Data Loss, Financial Data, News Articles
June 12, 2007 (Computerworld)
It’s not just the Recording Industry Association of America that people need to worry about when downloading music from P2P networks. A surprisingly high number of consumers sharing music and other files on peer-to-peer systems are inadvertently exposing all sorts of bank account and similar personal information on their computers to criminals lurking on the networks to harvest data. And it’s not just users at home who are exposing information about themselves; so are a large number of employees within banks, as well as banks’ contractors and suppliers.