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posted by cmn32480 on Friday September 16 2016, @07:38PM   Printer-friendly
from the disk-usting- dept.

http://www.techspot.com/news/66306-seagate-sued-own-employees-after-company-falls-phishing.html

Storage manufacturer Seagate is facing a class-action lawsuit brought against it by the company's own employees. It comes after a senior HR executive was tricked into handed over workers' personal information in a phishing scam.

Back in March, cybercriminals sent an email to Seagate HR that appeared to originate from company CEO Stephen Luczo. It requested copies of employees' 2015 W-2 tax forms and other personally identifiable information, which were duly handed over. The documents contained names, social security numbers, income figures and home addresses – a trove of valuable data for identity theft fraudsters.

Nearly 10,000 current and past employee details were sent to the scammers, along with those of any family members and beneficiaries named in the documents.

As noted by The Register, employees filed the lawsuit against Seagate in July, accusing the firm of malpractice and a lack of regard for employees through negligent data management. The suit claims the information was "almost immediately" used to file fraudulent tax forms and for other methods of ID theft.


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 16 2016, @07:54PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 16 2016, @07:54PM (#402916)

    Our HR lady (from a company that bought us out) decided that rather than spending the money on a stamp and toner to send our tax documents to us, she would just email them. So she sent a email to each of us, blasting ALL ~100 of us all 100 of our documents. With in minutes people started to freak. Now if she had ONLY emailed us who were internal employees to our internal email it would have been better. Instead she sent to former employees, some who were fired recently and were likely bitter at the company. So now it couldn't be un-sent by IT and our security was as good as our worst employee's security. It took the cheapo's months and a C*O threatening to leave for them to buy 1 years of fraud protection.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 16 2016, @08:05PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 16 2016, @08:05PM (#402923)

    rather than spending her precious time to print, stuff, stamp and send 100 envelopes to send our tax documents to us

    FTFY. Seriously though, people usually don't care about saving the company money. They care about doing the most possible with the least amount of effort FOR THEM.

    • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday September 16 2016, @09:06PM

      by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday September 16 2016, @09:06PM (#402941) Journal

      Unless there are well understood consequences for doing something obviously bad.

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      People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 16 2016, @11:02PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 16 2016, @11:02PM (#402976)

        But then it isn't really easier for them, is it?