More Data Woes As Time Warner Loses Information On 600,000 People

Media giant Time Warner announced to employees yesterday that its data storage company had lost a container of backup tapes containing personal information about its past and current employees.

In a letter from Senior Vice President Larry Cockrell, employees were advised that the United States Secret Service was investigating the disappearance. U.S. employees, the only country whose employees were impacted, were offered free credit monitoring services to help them guard against identity theft.

Other organizations reporting data loss in recent months include information brokers ChoicePoint and Lexis Nexis, the University of California at Berkeley, Bank of America and shoe retailer DSW.

Tips consumers can use to help guard against identity theft appeared in this blog entry on February 18, 2005.

posted by Consumer Help Web Editorial Team at 10:02 AM |