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2017 — Boeing: A Boeing employee inadvertently leaked the personal…

2017 36.0K records affected Share on X

Data compromised

Personal information

Technical writeup

A Boeing employee inadvertently leaked the personal information of 36,000 of his co-workers late last year when he emailed a company spreadsheet to his non-Boeing spouse.News of the breach surfaced earlier this month after a letter (.PDF) from Boeing’s Deputy Chief Privacy Officer Marie Olson, to the Attorney General for the state of Washington Bob Ferguson, was posted to Ferguson’s website.Forty-seven states, including Washington, have legislation on the books that requires companies or governm

Root cause

Unintended disclosure

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