Wells Fargo Employee Data Stolen

Wells Fargo sent a letter to its employees early this week warning “that a computer and data disk containing some of your personal information has been stolen” from an employee of an independent public accounting firm. The firm was hired to review Wells Fargo’s health and welfare plans.

The letter does not indicate how many employees were affected nor who was the accounting firm responsible.

According to the auditor, the data disk, which was stolen from the trunk of a locked vehicle belonging to one of their employees, included your name, Social Security Number and information about your prescription drug claims.

Wells Fargo is offering a free one-year subscription to a credit monitoring service. Employees are encouraged to call the HR Service Center if they have any questions or concerns.

A faxed copy of the notification letter can be found below:
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Source: Patricia from the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse

Protect yourself and your family, guaranteed!

Written by MCruz on August 31st, 2006 with 2 comments.
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Winston
#1. September 1st, 2006, at 1:10 AM.

Wow… this is what they call irony. Same guys who lost my personal info are going to feel as vulnerable as I was a few months ago. Isn’t this the 4th or 5th breach for Wells Fargo this year?

Team Member
#2. April 29th, 2008, at 12:42 PM.

The following email was sent to Wells Fargo Policy Works (policyworks@wellsfargo.com) in 2007:

“Currently, Wells Fargo has approximately 363 inventoried yet unencrypted laptop computers on 44 LAN servers. Is this is a critical security vulnerability?”

Wells Fargo “addressed” this potential breach of information security and consumer data privacy with the following dismissive response:

“Please keep in mind that we know that there are unencrypted laptops / desktops out there, for a variety of reasons.”

I am sure Wells Fargo customers will be relieved to know their confidential data (including social security numbers, Wells Fargo account numbers, addresses, income, and other information) may be stored on hundreds of unencrypted laptop computers and over 4,000 unencrypted desktop computers.

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