Personal Information of 70,000 Ford Employees Stolen
Published December 26th, 2005
Ford Motor Co. has begun notifying some 70,000 current and former white-collar workers that their sensitive personal and financial data has been stolen. The information, which included the employees’ names, addresses, and Social Security numbers, was contained on a computer that was stolen in November.
Although the company maintains that there is no evidence that any of the information has been misused or utilized for the purpose of identity theft, there is certainly no guarantee that it will not be. Thus, ford has already notified the FBI, the Federal Identity Theft Task Force, the U.S. Secret Service, and the three major credit reporting services (Equifax, TransUnion, and Experian) of the theft.
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