2008 — Royal Dutch Shell: An IT contractor used the personal data of four…
Data compromised
Personal information
Technical writeup
An IT contractor used the personal
data of four Shell workers as part of an unemployment insurance claims
scam. Employees of a third-party contractor misused information stored
in a corporate database. The database includes records for a majority
of current and former Shell employees. Misused data included names,
dates of birth and Social Security numbers.
Root cause
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