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Pfizer Employees at Risk for Identity Theft
www.pcworld.com Pfizer Inc. appears to be having an especially hard time of late keeping its employee data secure.
The company today confirmed that as many as 34,000 of its employees may be at risk of identity theft after a former employee illegally accessed and download copies of confidential information from a Pfizer computer system without the company's knowledge. The compromised information included, names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, phone numbers and bank and credit card information.
The incident occurred sometime late last year but was discovered by Pfizer only on July 10, according to Pfizer spokeswoman Shreya Prudlo. The company started notifying individuals of the breach on Aug. 24 -- more than six weeks after learning of the incident.
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