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Workers Sue Union Pacific Over ID Theft

An AP newswire article, via The Houston Chronicle, reports that:

Concerns about identity theft prompted a group of nine Union Pacific Corp. employees to sue the nation's largest railroad over the way it uses Social Security numbers to identify employees.

The company said in May that a computer with names and Social Security numbers of 30,000 current or retired Union Pacific employees had been stolen from a personnel employee on April 29.

The lawsuit was filed Friday in Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by the nine railroad employees on behalf of a class that could include 30,000 members, according to the lawsuit.

posted by Fergie @ 7/05/2006 07:45:00 AM