Thursday, April 27, 2006

LIRR Loses 17,000 Employee Records

Via The United Transport Union (UTU) website.

The Long Island Rail Road says it has lost personal information -- names, addresses, Social Security numbers and salary figures -- of virtually everyone who has ever worked for the railroad, according to the Associated Press.

Iron Mountain, Incorporated -- a Boston company -- employed by the railroad to warehouse and secure information at an undisclosed storage site, discovered the loss on April 6.

During a routine delivery between LIRR headquarters in Jamaica and the storage site -- an Iron Mountain driver noticed that at least one unmarked box was missing.

The LIRR said MTA Police and the NYPD were immediately notified.

On Monday, the railroad mailed a letter from LIRR President James Dermody to approximately 17,000 current and former employees, notifying them about the lost information.

The LIRR has about 6,000 current employees.

More here.

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