Toyota Plant Theft Exposes Job Applicants to Identity Theft
About 1,500 job applicants’ personal information was stored in a laptop computer belonging to a contractor. The laptop was stolen from a secured locker at the Toyota plant in San Antonio, TX. Totoya officials speculate that the target of the theft was for the equipment and not the valuable data inside which had names and Social Security numbers.
The laptop belonged to an independent contractor who was testing people applying for jobs at the plant, officials said. The computer was stolen after-hours. Toyota officials were sending out notices to people whose information may have been compromised.
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Source: San Antonio News
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