Alcatel-Lucent Workers' Info Missing

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Associated Press

Alcatel-Lucent Workers' Info Missing

May 18, 1:05 AM (ET)

MURRAY HILL, N.J. (AP) - A computer disk containing personal information on thousands of Lucent employees and retirees has been missing for at least 10 days, Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) (ALU) said Thursday.

A vendor informed the company May 7 that the disk could not be located, Alcatel-Lucent said in a prepared statement.

The disk includes names, addresses, Social Security numbers, birth dates and salary data for U.S. employees who worked for Lucent and their family members and Lucent retirees and their dependents, the company said. It said the disk did not contain credit card numbers or bank account information.

The telecommunications equipment maker sent an e-mail to employees Thursday informing them of the potential security breach and said it was preparing a mailing to employees, retirees and their dependents to explain the situation. In addition, the company said it will provide the individuals at risk with identity theft protection and credit monitoring for one year free of charge.

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[MethuenProgressive]

1. So not just my info, but my dependents too?

I retired at 45 when Lucent closed the plant I had worked at for over twenty years. I wonder how/if/when Lucent will contact me with the "mailing"?

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. All signs point to...

Organized trafficking in this kind of information. Too many occurances for this to be a string of coincidences.

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[sinkingfeeling]

4. IBM vendor's lost tens of thousands of their retirees information in Feb. The good news

was that it was on a mainframe tape (probably encrypted) so most people couldn't read it anyway. IBM is paying for an 'identity protection' service for each retiree whose info was 'lost'.