Deloitte & Touche Auditor Loses Data On Thousands Of McAfee Employees

McAfee's auditor, Deloitte & Touche USA, may be thinking of buying some security software itself, after a Deloitte employee left an unencrypted CD containing sensitive information on thousands of McAfee employees in the back of an airline seat last December. The backup CD contained names, social security numbers and information on stock holdings held by over 9,000 of McAfee's current and former employees, confirmed company spokeswoman Siobhan MacDermott Friday. The information concerned McAfee's U.S. and Canadian employees hired prior to 2005, amounting to about 6,000 former employes and 3,290 current staffers, MacDermott said. The CD was left on the airplane on Dec. 15, she said. McAfee was informed of the incident on Jan. 11, nearly a month after the disk was lost. After a Deloitte investigation determined who had been affected, McAfee began notifying employees of the situation via postal mail. The last of these notification letters was sent out last week, MacDermott said.

Source - Computer World(Australia)