Google reported loses employee data to burglars

Written by IT News on 9:43 AM

Google USA is lost their employee data, how come? Is Burglars get their hands on Google data?

Google is not to fault for this, since the data was stolen from the office Google, but from the headquarters of the High outsourcing company called Colt Express. In thieves out and stole unencrypted computer company, which contain data on them, data such as name, address, Social Security number, mainly for everything you'll need for an ID theft. Google and other companies engaged Colt Express are affected by the recent break c.

The authorities assume that thieves are interested in the computers' monetary value because they are simple burglars, no ID thieves. At this moment there is no evidence to support the claim that the purpose of robbery was to obtain data on the PC.

Information Danny Thorpe, a former engineer at Google, is one of those computers. He has just now been informed by letter about the incident. The letter was sent from Google and mentioned that all employees who joined the company as of December 31, 2005, may have had their private data stolen. It does not contain any information on the credit card.

Although Google is not directly responsible for the incident, she is willing offer assistance to all who participate in this area. This assistance takes the form of money, namely Google will pay for one year subscription service that specializes in the detection of ID theft. Colt Express must pay for this, but Samuel Colt III himself came, to say that they "did not have the resources, financial and otherwise to assist you further," as reported by ZDNet.

Google is no longer a customer of Colt Express: "We take the security of our employees and require very seriously external suppliers is necessary to meet the security standards. We review and update those standards on an ongoing basis. Google currently does not use the services of a Colt and had made that decision long before this incident.