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Thermo Fisher Scientific notifies employees after laptop with their SSN is stolen

Posted on March 4, 2014 by Dissent

Thermo Fisher Scientific is notifying 93 employees that their unencrypted names and Social Security numbers were on a laptop stolen from an employee in Boston on December 23. The firm learned of the breach on January 4.

Those affected are being offered a year of free credit monitoring with EquiFax’s Credit Watch Gold service.

You can read their February 28th notification to the state and draft letter to employees on the New Hampshire Attorney General’s site.


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