Thursday, April 1. 2004
Not a joke
From SANS -
--Stolen GMAC Financial Services Laptops Contain Unencrypted Customer Data
(25 March 2004)
Two laptops stolen from the car of a GMAC Financial Services employee contained personal data, including names, Social Security numbers and credit scores, belonging to more than 200,000 people. The data is password-protected but not encrypted. GMAC Financial Services is contacting the affected customers, warning them that their personal information may have been compromised and advising them to place fraud alerts on their credit files.
"password protected but not encrypted" means it would take me 10 minutes to get the data instead of 2.
Great. Time to refinance.
--Stolen GMAC Financial Services Laptops Contain Unencrypted Customer Data
(25 March 2004)
Two laptops stolen from the car of a GMAC Financial Services employee contained personal data, including names, Social Security numbers and credit scores, belonging to more than 200,000 people. The data is password-protected but not encrypted. GMAC Financial Services is contacting the affected customers, warning them that their personal information may have been compromised and advising them to place fraud alerts on their credit files.
"password protected but not encrypted" means it would take me 10 minutes to get the data instead of 2.
Great. Time to refinance.
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