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posted by Fnord666 on Monday December 16 2019, @11:07AM   Printer-friendly
from the whoops dept.

Valuable personal info leaks from Facebook – not Zuck selling it, someone stealing hard drive of staff data

Facebook has lost a copy of the personal details of more than 20,000 of its employees after a hard drive containing unencrypted payroll information was stolen from an employee's car.

The antisocial network said it is in the process of informing those who were exposed, though so far there is no indication of the purloined details being used for fraud, it is claimed.

"We worked with law enforcement as they investigated a recent car break-in and theft of an employee's bag containing company equipment with employee payroll information stored on it. We have seen no evidence of abuse and believe this was a smash and grab crime rather than an attempt to steal employee information," a Facebook spokesperson told The Register.

"Out of an abundance of caution, we have notified the current and former employees whose information we believe was stored on the equipment – people who were on our US payroll in 2018 – and are offering them free identity theft and credit monitoring services. This theft impacts current and former Facebook employees only and no Facebook user data was involved."


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  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday December 16 2019, @05:01PM (1 child)

    by Freeman (732) on Monday December 16 2019, @05:01PM (#932907) Journal

    That sounds like an IT department's worst nightmare. Then again, perhaps, I'm thinking of the complaint department, 1000 miles in that other direction.

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  • (Score: 2) by Booga1 on Monday December 16 2019, @05:23PM

    by Booga1 (6333) on Monday December 16 2019, @05:23PM (#932911)

    Well, they had Bitlocker setup it's not completely hopeless if a user forgets the PIN or if if someone gets locked out by too many attempts. The recovery key is stored in Active Directory and IT support would provide it when needed.
    Of course, if your recovery key didn't work then it a was boot and nuke time, a full reimage of the machine. That only happened to one person I know. The recovery key was successful for everyone else I knew that got locked out.