Valuable personal info leaks from Facebook – not Zuck selling it, unencrypted hard drives of staff data stolen

Valuable personal info leaks from Facebook – not Zuck selling it, unencrypted hard drives of staff data stolen

Car smash-and-grab ends with loss of payroll details for 20,000 employees


Facebook has lost a copy of the personal details of 29,000 of its employees after hard drives containing unencrypted payroll information were stolen from an employee's car.


The antisocial network said it is in the process of informing those who were exposed, though so far there is no indication of the purloined details being used for fraud, it is claimed.


"We worked with law enforcement as they investigated a recent car break-in and theft of an employee’s bag containing company equipment with employee payroll information stored on it," a Facebook spokesperson told The Register. "We have seen no evidence of abuse and believe this was a smash and grab crime rather than an attempt to steal employee information


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