Monday, October 1, 2007

At Gap data of 800000 competitors have been stolen

Gap has informed on theft of the laptop, containing data about 800 thousand competitors of work from the USA, Puerto Rico and Canada. Laptop has disappeared from office of the foreign company employed Gap for work with data about applicants for work, and data have not been ciphered.

On the stolen computer there were names, addresses, numbers of social insurance and the resumes sent through the Internet or collected by phone from July, 2006 till June, 2007. Gap has begun the notification of competitors, whose numbers of social insurance have got to the third parties, and suggests to provide year monitoring of credit operations. Now information on use of the stolen data did not act.