Civil Rights,
Civil Litigation
Dec. 18, 2019
Should it matter why personal data is stolen in a breach?
Facebook is in the news again for a data breach, but this time it happened in a low-tech way. An old fashioned thief stole hard drives in a bag left in an employee’s car.




Anita Taff-Rice
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Facebook is in the news again for a data breach, but this time it happened in a low-tech way. An old fashioned thief stole hard drives in a bag left in an employee's car. According to a Bloomberg report, the hard drives had unencrypted, highly sensitive, payroll information, including employee names, bank account numbers, the last four digits of employees' social security numbers, salary, bonus and stock ownership for 29,000 current and former employ...
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