2008 — Hewlett Packard: Several thousand employee records were contained on…
Data compromised
Personal information
Technical writeup
Several thousand employee records
were contained on a laptop that was stolen from an HP employee based
in the Houston area. At first HP thought that there was no sensitive
information on the laptop, but after looking into back-up files, the
company realized that it contained names and Social Security numbers
of current and former employees.
Root cause
Portable device theft