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Stolen: Google Employees' Personal Data

news.zdnet.com — Google has confirmed that personal data of U.S. employees hired prior to 2006 have been stolen in a recent burglary.Records kept at Colt Express Outsourcing Services, an external company Google and other companies use to handle human resources functions, were stolen in a burglary on May 26. An undisclosed number of employees' details...

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optimusprime01 57 days ago

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et3rnalnigh7, on 07/04/2008, -0/+5"Google is not currently using Colt's services and had made this decision long before this incident."

Yet they still had 6,500 employee records stored with them with what sounds like no protection at all, haha.
jts8, on 07/04/2008, -0/+2Anyone else keeping their employee data with Colt Express? Probably not for much longer.
- safetyguy1656, on 07/08/2008, -0/+1From my understanding, they're going out of business now.
Unixed, on 07/04/2008, -0/+1I hope Microsoft is not behind this. Watergate may have a copyright infringement suit if Bill is behind this.

Could not help myself. Commence burying.
RobotCitizen, on 07/05/2008, -0/+1It's unfortunate, but it also feels like karmic justice given the whole Viacom thing.
- kd420, on 07/06/2008, -0/+1Karma for Viacom? Yes I am sure that if there was some all encompassing universal justice system it would be powerful enough to cause the records to be stolen, yet stupid enough to harm the innocent bystanders of a lawsuit.
  - RobotCitizen, on 07/06/2008, -0/+1Take your meds. It's a figurative expression, not a literal one. Although, to humor the argument, most gods don't have much problem with collateral damage.
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