Starbucks Loses Laptop with Employee Information
In the second half of November, Starbucks disclosed a security breach that had occured a month earlier. A company laptop went missing and was thought to be stolen. It contained private details of 97,000 employees from accross he USA.
The data loss was announced through a memo posted on Starbucksgossip.com and was later confirmed by Starbucks officials. The memo also recommended those affected to monitor their financial accounts and look or any suspicios activities, as well as take all the necesary steps to prevent misusage of the lost records.
According to Seattlepi.com, this isn’t the first laptop containing company information stolen from Starbucks. In 2006, the company discovered it had misplaced 4 out-of-use laptops containing the names, addresses and Social Security numbers of 50,000 former and 10,000 then-current employees. One would expect enhanced security after such an incident.
