SECURITY BREACH AT LEXMARK !

[Anonymous]

Lexmark employees notified of breach
PERSONAL DATA BRIEFLY POSTED ON FILE TRANSFER SITE
Lexmark
International told employees this week that information that would
identify them personally was inadvertently posted on a company file
transfer site.It’s uncertain whether anyone with malicious intent
accessed the files.

The company will not say publicly what type
of data was posted, but it did tell affected employees, said
spokeswoman Barbara Leary. Lexmark also won’t say publicly how many
employees were affected.Affected employees are being offered free
credit-monitoring insurance and identity-theft insurance for a year.The
incident occurred Jan. 29 when the data were posted to a site used to
exchange information with third-party companies.”It wasn’t a breach of
systems,” Leary said. “It was human error.”Within six hours, the
release had been discovered and the files were removed, she said.”We
know that there were a couple of unknown IP addresses that accessed the
data,” Leary said. “We don’t know if they downloaded it.”The company
waited to disclose the incident to investigate exactly what had
happened, the nature of the data released and to discover who was
affected, she said.

[Author]

February 18, 2008 at 2:46 PM