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Friday 22 December 2006, 12:19 PM

Boeing criticised following data theft

Posted by RichardThurston

ZDNet's readers have been quick to pour scorn on Boeing, the aeroplane maker, for letting a thief run away with its sensitive employee data.

If you didn't catch the story first time , a now-former employee lost their laptop after (s)he left it in a car. The company surrendered information on 382,000 current and prior employees. It is the third such incident to affect the global manufacturer in the last 13 months.

Interesting to see three talkbacks posted by readers almost immediately.

One pointed out that it was a total failure of business processes. The other two said why on earth was such sensitive data stored on the hard drive of a portable device.

There's more on the story here, with some interesting comments from Boeing itself, which is now starting to rollout mandatory encryption. About time...

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