Someone Stole Facebook Payroll Data For Thousands of Employees (bloomberg.com) 29
mschaffer writes: Apparently Facebook had a recent privacy problem of a different kind. A thief broke into an employee's car and stole equipment -- including hard drives that contained unencrypted personal data of former Facebook employees. "Out of abundance of caution," Facebook alerted their current and former employees about the theft. "The hard drives, which were unencrypted, included payroll data like employee names, bank account numbers and the last four digits of employees' social security numbers," reports Bloomberg. "The drives also included compensation information, including salaries, bonus amounts, and some equity details. In total, the drives contained personal data for about 29,000 U.S. employees who worked at Facebook in 2018."
"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," the spokeswoman said in a statement shared with Bloomberg. "We have seen no evidence of abuse and believe this was a smash and grab crime rather than an attempt to steal employee information."
"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," the spokeswoman said in a statement shared with Bloomberg. "We have seen no evidence of abuse and believe this was a smash and grab crime rather than an attempt to steal employee information."
What kind of fly-by-night... (Score:5, Insightful)
Is that company run by high school students or something? What the heck kind of company doesn't require all their corporate assets (including laptops) to have encryption turned on by default? This isn't the 1990s. In this day and age, the fines for such gross negligence should be a company-ending event.
Re:What kind of fly-by-night... (Score:4, Funny)
Is that company run by high school students or something?
Zuckerberg, so that's a purely rhetorical question, yes?
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Touché.
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The kind that just came up with a totally bullshit explanation as to why sensitive data was compromised.
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Not sure why you assume that it isn't true. I've had corporate laptops stolen out of my car while parked at CHURCH. The difference is that it was encrypted, so nothing of value was at risk. But the vehicular property theft rate in the Bay Area is absolutely out of control, and the police don't care enough to do anything about it, which pretty much means it's likely to continue getting worse until a few big corporations start putting tracking hardware in their corporate assets and sending out their own b
amateurs indeed (Score:5, Insightful)
And why is somebody carrying this stuff off-premises anyway?
Re:amateurs indeed (Score:5, Insightful)
Off-premise and not encrypted. In 2019. The mind boggles.
laptop but NOT external storage encrypted ? (Score:3)
come on if they can not encrypt and secure their own employee's details why would you think they can manage their users....
I'm sure the IT policy said encrypted storage but I'm going to guess they only did the laptop hard drive...
I think they will need to do more than select * from usb_devices in the future...
Intrigue! (Score:2)
This is either part of an insipid criminal scheme to steal money or a great starting point for an up and coming serial killer that is very selective in choosing their victims. Is it wrong that I hope for the later? ;)
So when can we see who makes what? (Score:1)
Can't find it.... (Score:3)
Where was the abundance of caution?
Unencrypted harddrive? (Score:2)
I mean, what is this? Compete morons without a clue how to secure data in some small, non-IT company?
What's the problem? (Score:5, Insightful)
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No one works at facebook. Facebook is basically the matrix. It was created by the computers, to learn about the humans. It even went so far as to make it's own robot named "Mark Zuckerberg". Yes, THAT Mark. Don't tell me that you look into that thing's "eyes" and feel like you're looking at a human. No, he's a robot. He's the "front man" for the whole operation. This whole story about the hard drives going missing and blah blah blah... it's all just to continue the illusion that actual people work a
oh no! (Score:2)
Justice is served! (Score:5, Insightful)
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haha so what, BFD (Score:3)
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Wow how (Score:1)
And yet.... (Score:2)
"...believe this was a smash and grab crime rather than an attempt to steal employee information."
How comforting, considering they still got the data.
At Facebook (Score:2)
"At Facebook we really care about your privacy"