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.More here.
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.
posted by Fergie @ 4/27/2006 10:20:00 AM
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